Calliostoma iridescens

Calliostoma iridescens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.[1]

Calliostoma iridescens
Shell of Calliostoma iridescens Sowerby, 1903 from Mozambique, Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:
Trochoidea
Family:
Calliostomatidae
Subfamily:
Calliostomatinae
Genus:
Calliostoma
Species:
C. iridescens
Binomial name
Calliostoma iridescens
Sowerby III, 1903
Synonyms

Calliostoma (Calliostoma) iridescens Sowerby III, 1903

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off South Africa.

References
  1. 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


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