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Calliotrochus

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Genus of gastropods

Calliotrochus
Drawing with three views of a shell of Calliotrochus marmoreus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Stomatellinae
Genus: Calliotrochus
P. Fischer, 1879
Type species
Turbo phasianellus
Deshayes, G.P., 1863
Synonyms
  • Gibbula (Calliotrochus) Fischer, 1880
  • Trochinella Iredale, 1937

Calliotrochus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Stomatellinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Description

This genus consists of thin, small, shining globose species with a turbinate shape. It has rounded, smooth or spirally striate, convex whorls. The aperture is rounded. The outer lip and columella are simple, thin and arcuate. The umbilicus is narrow.

Species

Species within the genus Calliotrochus include:


The following species were brought into synonymy:

References

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. (2012). Calliotrochus P. Fischer, 1879. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512277 on 2012-11-23
  2. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  • Gatliff, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J., 1922. Additions to and alterations in the Catalogue of Victorian Marine Mollusca. Proc. R. Soc. Vict.n.s., 34(2):128-161.
  • Herbert, D.G., 1998. Revision of the genus Calliotrochus Fischer, 1879 (Gastropoda: Trochoidea). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 12:545-565.
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