''Herpetopoma mariae'' is a
species of
marine
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
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in the
family Chilodontaidae
Chilodontaidae is a taxonomic family of mostly small deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Taxonomy
The family was previously in ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2012). Herpetopoma mariae Finlay, 1930. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512100 on 2013-05-04]
Distribution
New Zealand.
[ Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ]
Original description
''Herpetopoma mariae'' was originally discovered and described by
Harold John Finlay
Harold John Finlay (22 March 1901 – 7 April 1951) was a New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist.
Biography
Finlay was born in Comilla, India (now Bangladesh), on 22 March 1901. He was left a paraplegic after contracting poliomyelitis at ...
in 1930.
Finlay's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
References
This article incorporates
public domain text coming from New Zealand from reference.
[ Finlay H. J. 1930]
''Additions to the Recent Molluscan Fauna of New Zealand. No. 3.''
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Volume 61,
page 222
247.
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mariae
Gastropods described in 1930
Taxa named by Harold John Finlay