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Kauaʻi record · KCA-MOL-00106

Warty Turban

Homalopoma verruca

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Warty Turban — source-informed Atlas ecological reconstruction; not a specimen photograph or evidence of current abundance.
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About Warty Turban

Bishop Museum Technical Report 29 records Homalopoma verruca at Kauai coastal stations; observations from Lawai in 2010 and Kalihiwai in 2024 corroborate persistence.

MolluscaBase/WoRMS AphiaID 1643712 accepts Homalopoma verruca.

Primary survey is coastal/nearshore and corroborative records are from Kauai shore sites.

Authoritative historical locality plus recent local observation supports current occurrence; recent identity remains community-based. Reclassified to VERIFIED_HISTORICAL under the uniform recency rule.

Names and classification

Scientific name
Homalopoma verruca
Common names
Warty Turban
Other names
Homalopoma verruca · Leptothyra verruca
Record type
species

Kauaʻi occurrence and status

Kauaʻi occurrence
Historically verified with 2024 corroboration; treated as current at yellow confidence. Uniform QA: the dated authoritative evidence is historical; later community observations are corroborative only and do not establish authoritative current status.
Origin
Origin not inferred from occurrence census
Conservation status
Not assessed
Evidence limits
Occurrence category and evidence are source-bounded. Abundance, trend, and living status are not inferred beyond the reviewed evidence.

Habitat and ecology

Habitats
Marine reef and nearshore

Process and seasonal context

Seasonal description
Homalopoma verruca is included in the verified Kauaʻi mollusk census. Authoritative historical locality plus recent local observation supports current occurrence; recent identity remains community-based. Reclassified to VERIFIED_HISTORICAL under the uniform recency rule.

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