''Stephopoma'' is a
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of
sea snail
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s,
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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 ().
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mollusc
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s in the family
Siliquariidae
''Siliquariidae'' is a family of sea snails with unusual, very loosely coiled shells. These are marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.
Taxonomy
The following two subfamilies
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ...
, the "slit worm shells" or "slit worm snails".
[Bouchet, P. (2012). Stephopoma Mörch, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224610 on 2012-02-11]
Species
Species within the genus ''Stephopoma'' include:
* ''
Stephopoma abrolhosense'' Bieler, 1997
* ''
Stephopoma lacunosum'' (Barnard, 1963)
* ''
Stephopoma levispinosum''
* ''
Stephopoma mamillatum'' Morton & Keen, 1960
* ''
Stephopoma myrakeenae'' Olsson & McGinty, 1958
* ''
Stephopoma nucleocostatum'' May, 1915
* ''
Stephopoma nucleogranosum'' Verco, 1904
* ''
Stephopoma pennatum'' Mørch, 1860
* ''
Stephopoma quincunx'' (Barnard, 1963)
* ''
Stephopoma roseum'' (
Quoy and
Gaimard, 1834)
* ''
Stephopoma tricuspe'' Mörch, 1861
References
* Rolán E., 2005. ''Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda''.
Further reading
*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
Siliquariidae
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