Calliostoma ocellatum

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Calliostoma ocellatum
Calliostoma ocellatum 001.jpg
Drawing of a shell of Calliostoma ocellatum
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Subfamily: Calliostomatinae
Genus: Calliostoma
Species:
C. ocellatum
Binomial name
Calliostoma ocellatum
(Reeve, 1863) [1]
Synonyms
  • Calliostoma (Calliostoma) ocellatum Reeve, 1863
  • Zizyphinus ocellatus Reeve, 1863 (original description)

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

Description[]

The shell has a rather broadly conical shape. It is reddish fulvous, ocellated with brown-shaded white spots. The whorls are concavely impressed round the upper parts, then rounded, and spirally grain-ridged throughout. The shell is rather constricted below the sutures, then rounded and ocellated with shaded opaque-white spots.[3]

Distribution[]

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius.

References[]

  1. ^ Reeve, Conch. Icon., f. 61 (1863)
  2. ^ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Calliostoma ocellatum (Reeve, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=580396 on 2012-12-07
  3. ^ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  • Trew, A., 1984. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Part 30. Trochacea. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales

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