Calliostoma axelolssoni

Calliostoma axelolssoni, common name Olsson's top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.[1]

Calliostoma axelolssoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Subfamily: Calliostomatinae
Genus: Calliostoma
Species:
C. axelolssoni
Binomial name
Calliostoma axelolssoni
Quinn, 1992
Synonyms
  • Calliostoma olssoni Bayer, F.M., 1971 (preoccupied name by Calliostoma olssoni Maury, 1925)
  • Calliostoma (Kombologion) rosewateri auct. non Clench & Turner, 1960
  • Calliostoma (Kombologion) bairdii rosewateri Rios, 1985

Description

The size of the shell varies between 20 mm and 33 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Lesser Antilles and Northern Brazil at a depth of 230 m.

References

  1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Calliostoma axelolssoni Quinn, 1992. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532507 on 2012-12-07
  • Bayer, F. M. 1971. Biological results of the University of Miami Deep-Sea Expeditions. 79. New and unusual mollusks collected by R/V John Elliott Pillsbury and R/V Gerda in the tropical Western Atlantic. Bulletin of Marine Science 21: 111-236.
  • Quinn, J. F. Jr. 1992. New species of Calliostoma Swainson, 1840 (Gastropoda: Trochidae), and notes on some poorly known species from the Western Atlantic Ocean. Nautilus 106: 77-114
  • To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
  • To Encyclopedia of Life
  • To World Register of Marine Species
  • "Calliostoma axelolssoni". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.


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