Calliostoma elegantulum | |
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Drawing of a shell of Calliostoma elegantulum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Calliostomatidae |
Genus: | Calliostoma |
Species: | C. elegantulum
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Binomial name | |
Calliostoma elegantulum | |
Synonyms[2] | |
Ziziphinus elegantulus A. Adams, 1853 |
Calliostoma elegantulum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.[2]
The buff, imperforate shell has a conical shape. The whorls are plane, encircled by distant elevated violet beaded lines, alternately smaller, the interstices longitudinally striate. The base of the shell is nearly plane, ornamented with 4 violet cinguli. The aperture is subquadrate and white inside. The columella is subtruncate at its base.[3]