Calliostoma rosewateri

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

Calliostoma rosewateri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Subfamily: Calliostomatinae
Genus: Calliostoma
Species:
C. rosewateri
Binomial name
Calliostoma rosewateri
Clench & Turner, 1960
Synonyms
  • Calliostoma (Kombologion) rosewateri Clench & Turner, 1960
  • Calliostoma (Kombologian) bairdii rosewateri Clench & Turner, 1960

Description

The size of the shell varies between 30 mm and 40 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs off the Lesser Antilles and in the Caribbean Sea off Colombia at depths between 270 m and 420 m..

References

  1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Calliostoma rosewateri Clench & Turner, 1960. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532536 on 2012-12-07
  • Clench, W. J. and R. D. Turner. 1960. The genus Calliostoma in the Western Atlantic. Johnsonia 4: 1-80


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