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Holopea mobergi

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Holopeidae

Taxonomy
Holopea mobergi was named by Troedsson (1918) [= Turbo? sp. Moberg 1892: 29. = Turbo? sp. Olin 1906: 23, 25. = Turbo? sp. Moberg 1910: 56, 71. Lectotype designated by Ebbestad et al. 2013.]. Its type specimen is LO 2881T, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Moberg (1910) Locality IIIi and Va, Röstånga, which is in a Pirgu marine mudstone in the Lindegård Formation of Sweden.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1918Holopea mobergi Troedsson pp. 313 - 314
2013Holopea mobergi Ebbestad et al. pp. 318 - 319 fig. 10

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassEogastropoda
orderEuomphalina
superfamilyEuomphaloidea()
familyHolopeidae
genusHolopea
speciesmobergiTroedsson 1918

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Holopea mobergi Troedsson 1918
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. O. R. Ebbestad et al. 2013Shell large, up to 12 mm high and 10 mm wide, with five rapidly expanding whorls. The whorl profile is evenly rounded, nearly circular and the whorls have slight overlap with deeply incised sutures. Apical angle about 75◦. Umbilicus open but narrow. The shell is thin with fine orthocline growth lines. Thickening of the apertural lip is not evident.