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Calliostoma iridium

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Species of gastropod

Calliostoma iridium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Subfamily: Calliostomatinae
Genus: Calliostoma
Species: C. iridium
Binomial name
Calliostoma iridium
Dall, 1896

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

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 Perรบ, 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

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Taxon identifiers
Calliostoma iridium


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