Calliostoma cleopatra

Calliostoma cleopatra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Subfamily: Calliostomatinae
Genus: Calliostoma
Species: C. cleopatra
Binomial name
Calliostoma cleopatra
(Locard, 1896) [1]
Synonyms
  • Trochus cleopatra P. Fischer, 1883
  • Zizyphinus cleopatra Locard, 1896 (original combination)

Calliostoma cleopatra is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.[2]

Distribution

This bathyal species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Western Sahara and in the Bay of Biscay.

References

  1. Locard A., 1896: Catalogue des Mollusques et Brachiopodes dragués dans le golfe de Gascogne par M. le professeur Koehler (campagne du "Caudan", août 1895); Annales de la Société d'Agriculture, Sciences et Industrie de Lyon (7) 3: 205-222
  2. Calliostoma cleopatra (Locard, 1896).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.

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