Calliostoma iridium

Calliostoma iridium, common name the Panama rainbow top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.[1][2]

Calliostoma iridium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Genus: Calliostoma
Species:
C. iridium
Binomial name
Calliostoma iridium
Dall, 1896

Description

The height of the shell attains 19 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Panama and off Pacific Colombia at depths between 230 m and 280 m.

References

  1. WoRMS (2012). Calliostoma iridium Dall, 1896. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=574900 on 2012-12-07
  2. Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to PerĂº, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
  • W.H. Dall (1896) Diagnoses of new species of mollusks from the West Coast of America; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum XVIII, 1895, p. 7-20
  • To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
  • To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
  • To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
  • To World Register of Marine Species
  • "Calliostoma iridium". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.


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