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==Description== |
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The shell has a rather broadly conical shape. It is reddish fulvous, ocellated with brown-shaded white spots. The [[Whorl (mollusc)|whorl]]s are concavely impressed round the upper parts, then rounded, and spirally grain-ridged throughout. The shell is rather constricted below the [[Suture (anatomy)|suture]]s, then rounded and ocellated with shaded opaque-white spots.<ref>[ |
The shell has a rather broadly conical shape. It is reddish fulvous, ocellated with brown-shaded white spots. The [[Whorl (mollusc)|whorl]]s are concavely impressed round the upper parts, then rounded, and spirally grain-ridged throughout. The shell is rather constricted below the [[Suture (anatomy)|suture]]s, then rounded and ocellated with shaded opaque-white spots.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/manualofconcholo111tryo Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia]</ref> |
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==Distribution== |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Calliostomatidae |
| Subfamily: | Calliostomatinae |
| Genus: | Calliostoma |
| Species: | C. ocellatum
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| Calliostoma ocellatum (Reeve, 1863) [1]
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Calliostoma ocellatum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.[2]
Description
The shell has a rather broadly conical shape. It is reddish fulvous, ocellated with brown-shaded white spots. The whorls are concavely impressed round the upper parts, then rounded, and spirally grain-ridged throughout. The shell is rather constricted below the sutures, then rounded and ocellated with shaded opaque-white spots.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius.
References
- ^ Reeve, Conch. Icon., f. 61 (1863)
- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Calliostoma ocellatum (Reeve, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=580396 on 2012-12-07
- ^ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- Trew, A., 1984. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Part 30. Trochacea. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales