Biology:Calliostoma axelolssoni

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Calliostoma axelolssoni
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Subfamily: Calliostomatinae
Genus: Calliostoma
Species:
C. axelolssoni
Binomial name
Calliostoma axelolssoni
Quinn, 1992
Synonyms
  • Calliostoma olssoni Bayer, F.M., 1971 (preoccupied name by Calliostoma olssoni Maury, 1925)
  • Calliostoma (Kombologion) rosewateri auct. non Clench & Turner, 1960
  • Calliostoma (Kombologion) bairdii rosewateri Rios, 1985

Calliostoma axelolssoni, common name Olsson's top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 20 mm and 33 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Lesser Antilles and Northern Brazil at a depth of 230 m.

References

  1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Calliostoma axelolssoni Quinn, 1992. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532507 on 2012-12-07
  • Bayer, F. M. 1971. Biological results of the University of Miami Deep-Sea Expeditions. 79. New and unusual mollusks collected by R/V John Elliott Pillsbury and R/V Gerda in the tropical Western Atlantic. Bulletin of Marine Science 21: 111–236.
  • Quinn, J. F. Jr. 1992. New species of Calliostoma Swainson, 1840 (Gastropoda: Trochidae), and notes on some poorly known species from the Western Atlantic Ocean. Nautilus 106: 77-114

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q5022264 entry