Biology:Calliostoma obesulum

Calliostoma obesulum
	Original drawing with three views of a shell of Calliostoma obesulum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Calliostomatidae
Subfamily:	Calliostomatinae
Genus:	Calliostoma
Species:	C. obesulum
Binomial name
	Calliostoma obesulum; (Locard, 1898)
Synonyms
	Gibbula obesula Locard, 1898 (original description); Zizyphinus obesulus Fischer, 1883;

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

Description

The height of the shell attains 13 mm.

This species occurs off the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Locard A. (1898). Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882 et 1883. Mollusques testacés. Paris, Masson.vol. 2 [1898], p. 1-515, pl. 1-18
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213

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