Calliostoma thrincoma

Short description: Species of gastropod

Calliostoma thrincoma

Original drawing of a shell of Calliostoma thrincoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Vetigastropoda
Order:  | Trochida
Superfamily:  | Trochoidea
Family:  | Calliostomatidae
Genus:  | Calliostoma
Species:  |

C. thrincoma

Binomial name
Calliostoma thrincoma

Melvill & Standen, 1903

Synonyms

Calliostoma (Calliostoma) thrincoma Melvill, J.C. & R. Standen, 1903

Calliostoma thrincoma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.[1]

## Description

The height of this conical-pyramidal, imperforate shell attains 11 mm. It is highly sculptured and conspicuously keeled around every whorl just above the suture. The body whorl at the periphery is bicarinate. The aperture is square-shaped.[2]

## Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.

## References

1. ↑ Calliostoma thrincoma Melvill & Standen, 1903. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
2. ↑ The Annals and magazine of natural history, Melvill & Standen, Description of sixty-eight new gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the North Arabian Sea; 7th ser. v. 12 (1903)

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