Hemitoma Swainson 1840 (snail)

Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae

Parent taxon: Fissurellidae according to J. A. Todd 2001

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Knight et al. 1960, Ladd 1966, Perrilliat 1972, Sepkoski 2002, Short and Potter 1987, Squires 1987, Weisbord 1962 and Wilson 1993

Sister taxa: Altrix, Austriacopsis, Emarginulinae, Fissurellinae, Leurolepas, Lucapina, Lucapinella, Nesta, Parmophorus, Puncturella, Subemarginula, Zeidora

Subtaxa: Hemitoma (Hemitoma) Hemitoma (Montfortia) Hemitoma multiradiata Hemitoma octoradiata Hemitoma panhi

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Haiti (2 collections), the Marshall Islands (3), Vanuatu (1)

• Pliocene of Fiji (1), Jamaica (1), Mexico (1), Venezuela (4)

• Miocene of Indonesia (1)

• Eocene of United States (1: California)

Total: 15 collections including 16 occurrences

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