Calliotrochus | |
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Drawing with three views of a shell of Calliotrochus marmoreus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Trochidae |
Subfamily: | Stomatellinae |
Genus: |
Calliotrochus P. Fischer, 1879 |
Type species | |
Turbo phasianellus Deshayes, G.P., 1863
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Calliotrochus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Stomatellinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails. [1]
This genus consists of thin, small, shining globose species with a turbinate shape. It has rounded, smooth or spirally striate, convex whorls. The aperture is rounded. The outer lip and columella are simple, thin and arcuate. The umbilicus is narrow. [2]
Species within the genus Calliotrochus include: [1]
The following species were brought into synonymy:
[1]