Calliostoma lithocolletum

Calliostoma lithocolletum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Subfamily: Calliostomatinae
Genus: Calliostoma
Species: C. lithocolletum
Binomial name
Calliostoma lithocolletum
Dautzenberg, 1925 [1]

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

Description

The height of the shell attains 18 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean at bathyal depths off the Canary Islands; and off Senegal to Ghana

References

  1. Dautzenberg P., 1925: Mollusques nouveaux provenant des croisières du Prince Albert Ier de Monaco; Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco 457: 1-12
  2. Calliostoma lithocolletum (Dautzenberg, 1925).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.

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