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Calliostoma iridescens

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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

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

Description

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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