Calliostoma occidentale

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Calliostoma occidentale
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Drawing with two views of a shell of Calliostoma occidentale
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Genus: Calliostoma
Species:
C. occidentale
Binomial name
Calliostoma occidentale
(Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Calliostoma formosum(McAndrew & Forbes, 1847)
  • Margarita alabastrumLovén, 1846
  • Margarites alabastrum"Beck, H.H. MS" Lovén, S.L., 1846
  • Trochus alabastrum(Lovén, 1846)
  • Trochus formosusMacAndrew, R. & E. Forbes, 1842
  • Trochus occidentalisMighels & Adams, 1842 (original description)
  • Trochus quadricinctusS. V. Wood, 1848
  • Zizyphinus alabastrum Beck in Reeve

Calliostoma occidentale, common name the boreal topsnail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae. [2]

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Description

The size of the shell varies between 6 mm and 17 mm. The shell is rather small, thin, imperforate, and opalescent with a shining surface. It is strongly sculptured above with smooth, yellowish spiral ribs, narrower than their interstices, numbering 3 or 4 on each of the 7 to 8 whorls. The periphery is very bluntly subangular. The base of the shell is nearly flat, with a few ribs around the axis and at the periphery, otherwise it is smooth. The acute spire is elevated. The apical whorl is minute, smooth, and rounded. Three whorls follow which are beaded on the spiral ribs. The sutures are impressed. The pearly aperture is rather rounded. The narrow columella is arcuate, not dentate or truncate at its base. [3]

Distribution

This species has a wide distribution. It occurs in European waters, the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, Greenland, Scandinavia and in the Barents Sea at depths between 18 m and 1800 m.

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References

  1. ↑ Mighels, J. W. and C. B. Adams. 1842. Descriptions of twenty-four species of the shells of New England. Boston Journal of Natural History 4: 37–54, pl. 4.
  2. 1 2 Calliostoma occidentale (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 22 April 2010.
  3. ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

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