Herpetopoma seychellarum

Herpetopoma seychellarum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chilodontidae.[2][3]

Herpetopoma seychellarum
1889 illustration of an apertural view of a shell of Herpetopoma seychellarum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Chilodontaidae
Genus: Herpetopoma
Species:
H. seychellarum
Binomial name
Herpetopoma seychellarum
(G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Euchelus seychellarum G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869

Description

The height of the shell attains 3 mm. The small, white, rather solid, subglobose shell has a depressed-conical shape. The four whorls are a little convex. They are joined by an impressed suture, and ornamented by spiral closely, minutely granulose riblets; The body whorl is rounded at the periphery. The base of the shell is convex, spirally granulate-ribbed, and narrowly umbilicate. The aperture is subrotund. The outer lip is regularly arched, its edge rather obtuse, and sulcate inside. The columella is straight, obliquely sloping, with a small tooth below.[4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off the Seychelles.

References
  1. G. and H. Nevill, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bang. xxxviii, pt. I, p. 157, 1869
  2. Bouchet, P. (2012). Herpetopoma seychellarum (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=710080 on 2013-04-14
  3. Herbert D.G. (2012) A revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of southern Africa and the south-western Indian Ocean. African Invertebrates, 53(2): 381–502. (6 November 2012)
  4. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Euchelus seychellarum)
  • To World Register of Marine Species
  • "Herpetopoma seychellarum". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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