Calliostoma cleopatra
Shell of Calliostoma cleopatra (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Genus: Calliostoma
Species:
C. cleopatra
Binomial name
Calliostoma cleopatra
(Locard, 1896) [1]
Synonyms
  • Trochus cleopatra P. Fischer, 1883
  • Zizyphinus cleopatra Locard, 1896 (original combination)

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

Description

Distribution

This bathyal species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Western Sahara and in the Bay of Biscay.

References

  1. ↑ Locard A., 1896: Catalogue des Mollusques et Brachiopodes dragués dans le golfe de Gascogne par M. le professeur Koehler (campagne du "Caudan", août 1895); Annales de la Société d'Agriculture, Sciences et Industrie de Lyon (7) 3: 205–222
  2. ↑ Calliostoma cleopatra (Locard, 1896). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213


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