Stephopoma

Stephopoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Siliquariidae
Subfamily:	Stephopomatinae
Genus:	Stephopoma Mörch, 1860[1]
Species
See text
Synonyms
Lilax Finlay, 1926

Stephopoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Siliquariidae, the "slit worm shells" or "slit worm snails".[2]

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

1. Mörch O. A. L. (1860). J. Conchyliol. 8: 42.
2. 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

• 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 ISBN 0-00-216906-1