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Calliostoma
Genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Calliostoma is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails with gills and an operculum, marine gastropod molluscs within the family Calliostomatidae, the Calliostoma top snails. Previously this genus was placed within the family Trochidae. Calliostoma is the type genus of the family Calliostomatidae.
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Calliostoma | |
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A live individual of Calliostoma ligatum with the operculum showing at the back (on the left) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Calliostomatidae |
Subfamily: | Calliostomatinae |
Genus: | Calliostoma Swainson, 1840 |
Type species | |
Trochus conulus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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