| Calliostoma canaliculatum | |
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| Calliostoma canaliculatum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Calliostomatidae |
| Subfamily: | Calliostomatinae |
| Tribe: | Calliostomatini |
| Genus: | Calliostoma |
| Species: | C. canaliculatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Calliostoma canaliculatum (Lightfoot, 1786) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Calliostoma dolarium (Holten) |
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Calliostoma canaliculatum, common name the channeled topsnail, is a species of small sea snail with gills and an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae, the calliostoma top snails.[1]
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Shell white to buff with raised spiral ribs, interspaces brownish, a small blue stain adjacent to the columnella. Height 15 to 35 mm. [2]
Sitka, Alaska to Camalu, northern Baja California, Mexico.[3]