Calliostoma elegantulum
| Calliostoma elegantulum | |
|---|---|
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| Drawing of a shell of Calliostoma elegantulum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Calliostomatidae |
| Subfamily: | Calliostomatinae |
| Genus: | Calliostoma |
| Species: | C. elegantulum |
| Binomial name | |
| Calliostoma elegantulum (A. Adams, 1853) [1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Ziziphinus elegantulus A. Adams, 1853 | |
Calliostoma elegantulum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.[2]
Description
The buff, imperforate shell has a conical shape. The whorls are plane, encircled by distant elevated violet beaded lines, alternately smaller, the interstices longitudinally striate. The base of the shell is nearly plane, ornamented with 4 violet cinguli. The aperture is subquadrate and white inside. The columella is subtruncate at its base.[3]
References
- ↑ Adams, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 167.
- 1 2 Calliostoma elegantulum (A. Adams, 1853). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
- ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- Adams, A., 1853. Contributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gastropodous Mollusca. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1851(19):150-192
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