Calliostoma selectum

Calliostoma selectum
A shell of Calliostoma selectum from the Kapiti Coast, north of Wellington, New Zealand.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Subfamily: Calliostomatinae
Tribe: Calliostomatini
Genus: Calliostoma
Subgenus: Maurea
Species: C. selectum
Binomial name
Calliostoma selectum
(Dillwyn, 1817)
Synonyms[2]
  • Trochus selectus Dillwyn, 1817
  • Trochus cunninghami Gray, 1834
  • Zizyphinus hodgei Hutton, 1875[1]
  • Zizyphinus decarinatus Hutton, 1884
  • Zizyphinus ponderosus Hutton, 1885
  • Calliostoma carnicolor Preston, 1907
  • Calliostoma pagoda Oliver, 1926
  • Venustas regifica Finlay, 1927

Calliostoma selectum is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calliostomatidae, the calliostoma top snails.[3]

Distribution

References

  1. ^ Hutton F. W. (1875). "Description of three new Tertiary Shells, in the Otago Museum". Trans. Proc. N.Z. Inst. 7: 458, plate XXI
  2. ^ http://clade.ansp.org/obis/search.php/70458 OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, Data as of 2006-05-17, accessed 14 September 2009.
  3. ^ WoRMS (2010). Calliostoma selectum (Dillwyn, 1817). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467256 on 2010-05-21

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