Biology:Calthalotia fragum

Short description: Species of gastropod

Calthalotia fragum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Calthalotia
Species:	C. fragum
Binomial name
Calthalotia fragum (Iredale, 1931)
Synonyms
Calliostoma fragum (Philippi, 1848) Calthalotia comtessa (Iredale, 1931) Odontotrochus indistinctus Wood, 1828 Prothalotia comtessei Iredale, T., 1931 Thalotia comtessei Iredale, 1931 Thalotia marginata Tenison-Woods, 1879 Thalotia zebrides A. Adams, 1853 Trochus decoratus Philippi, 1846 (invalid: junior homonym of Trochus decoratus Hehl, 1832, and T. decoratus Michelotti, 1840) Trochus fragum Philippi, 1848 (original combination) Trochus indistinctus Wood, 1828 Trochus pyrgos Philippi, 1855 Zizyphius fragum Philippi, 1848

Calthalotia fragum is the common name of the spotted strawberry top shell or the comtesse's top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Description

The size of an adult shell of this species varies between 8 mm and 25 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Southeast Australia , Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and Japan .

References

• Wood, W. 1828. Index Testaceologicus; or A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system. London : Taylor Supplement, 1-59, pls 1-8.
• Adams, A. 1853. Contributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gastropodous Mollusca. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1851(19): 150-192
• Philippi, R.A. 1855. Trochidae. pp. 249–328 in Küster, H.C. (ed). Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2.
• Hedley, C. 1901. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26: 16-25
• Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian Shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs.
• Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1-109
• Short, J.W. & Potter, D.G. 1987. Shells of Queensland and The Great Barrier Reef. Drummoyne, NSW : Golden press Pty Ltd 135 pp., 60 pl.
• Hickman, C.S. & McLean, J.H. 1990. Systematic revision and suprageneric classification of trochacean gastropods. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Science Series 35: i-vi, 1-169
• Wilson B. (1993) Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Vol. 1. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, Western Australia, 408 pp

External links

• Philippi, R.A. 1846. Diagnoses testaceorum quorundam novarum. Malakozoologische Blätter 1846: 97-106
• Philippi, R.A. 1849. Centuria altera Testaceorum novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 5: 99-112
• Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. On some new marine shells from Moreton Bay. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4(1): 108-111
• Iredale, T. (1931). Australian molluscan notes. Nº I. Records of the Australian Museum. 18: 201-235
• To World Register of Marine Species
• "Calthalotia fragum" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/2/Shell_8872.shtml. 

Wikidata ☰ Q13450855 entry