Calliotropis oros

Calliotropis oros
Shell of Calliotropis oros (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Family:	Calliotropidae
Genus:	Calliotropis
Species:	C. oros
Binomial name
Calliotropis oros Vivens, 2007

Calliotropis oros is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eucyclidae and of small deep-water vetigastropod described by Claude Vilvens in 2007 from the southwest Pacific. Vilvens placed it within Calliotropis (then treated in Calliotropinae), and subsequent databases list it in family Eucyclidae/Calliotropidae within superfamily Seguenzioidea (taxonomy in this group has shifted over time). ^{[1] [2]}

Subspecies

• Calliotropis oros marquisensisVilvens, 2007
• Calliotropis oros orosVilvens, 2007

Description

The length of the shell is between 4 and 6 mm. ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Fiji and New Caledonia. ^[3]

References

1. Calliotropis oros Vivens, 2007 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 18 April 2010.
2. "New species and new records of Calliotropis" (PDF).
3. "Hardy's Internet Guide to Marine Gastropods". Conchology.

• Vilvens C. (2007) New records and new species of Calliotropis from Indo-Pacific. Novapex 8 (Hors Série 5): 1–72.

External links

• "Calliotropis oros oros". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.