Calliostoma elegantulum
Calliostoma elegantulum | |
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Drawing of a shell of Calliostoma elegantulum | |
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(unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda
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Species: | C. elegantulum
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Calliostoma elegantulum | |
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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.
- ^ a b Calliostoma elegantulum (A. Adams, 1853). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ 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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Categories:
- Calliostoma
- Gastropods described in 1853