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Herpetopoma
Sign in to saveHerpetopoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Chilodontaidae.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 39 inbound references to Herpetopoma, and connects out to Mollusca, George Washington Tryon and Animalia.
It is catalogued under topics including Chilodontaidae, Herpetopoma and Taxa named by Henry Augustus Pilsbry.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderSeguenziida
- FamilyChilodontaidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,344
- With media
- 13
- Family
- Chilodontaidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, DMNS, NMV, USNM, TMAG
- Recorded in
- Australia, United States, Indonesia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Seguenzioidea
- Image
- Herpetopoma instrictum 001.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Herpetopoma
- taxon name
- Herpetopoma
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Herpetopoma
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Description
- Species
- References
Herpetopoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Chilodontaidae.
In the past, this genus was often treated as a subgenus of Euchelus. However, this genus may prove to be a composite taxon, given the diversity of the shell forms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Herpetopoma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.