Calliostoma iridescens
Appearance
Calliostoma iridescens | |
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Shell of Calliostoma iridescens Sowerby, 1903 from Mozambique, Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Calliostomatidae |
Genus: | Calliostoma |
Species: | C. iridescens
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Binomial name | |
Calliostoma iridescens Sowerby III, 1903
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Synonyms | |
Calliostoma (Calliostoma) iridescens Sowerby III, 1903 |
Calliostoma iridescens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.[1]
Description
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Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off South Africa.
References
[edit]- ^ Calliostoma iridescens Sowerby, 1903. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- Trew, A., 1984. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Part 30. Trochacea. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales.
- Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218