Calliostoma cleopatra

Shell of Calliostoma cleopatra (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Calliostomatidae
Genus:	Calliostoma
Species:	C. cleopatra
Binomial name
*Calliostoma cleopatra* (Locard, 1896) ^[1]
Synonyms
Trochus cleopatra P. Fischer, 1883 Zizyphinus cleopatra Locard, 1896 (original combination)

Calliostoma cleopatra is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.^[2]

Description

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Distribution

This bathyal species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Western Sahara and in the Bay of Biscay.

^ Locard A., 1896: Catalogue des Mollusques et Brachiopodes dragués dans le golfe de Gascogne par M. le professeur Koehler (campagne du "Caudan", août 1895); Annales de la Société d'Agriculture, Sciences et Industrie de Lyon (7) 3: 205–222
^ Calliostoma cleopatra (Locard, 1896). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.

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