Calliostoma echinatum

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

Calliostoma echinatum
Drawing with two views of Calliostoma echinatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:
Trochoidea
Family:
Calliostomatidae
Subfamily:
Calliostomatinae
Genus:
Calliostoma
Species:
C. echinatum
Binomial name
Calliostoma echinatum
Dall, 1881

Description

(Original description by W.H. Dall) The size of the shell varies between 5 mm and 10 mm. The small, white shell has an acute-conical shape, in general resembling Calliostoma sapidum, but less stout and solid and with wholly different sculpture. The six whorls are somewhat appressed toward the apex. The nucleus is smooth, semi-transparent, inflated, shining, remainder of shell opaque white with the following sculpture. On the upper whorls, four revolving ribs with smaller inconspicuous ones between them, crossed by faint plications (more evident on the smaller whorls). These produce nodosities which, on the four principal ribs, and especially on the third one, counting from the suture toward the base, rise to acutely pointed projections separated by an incurved scallop of about twice the width of the projections. Toward the aperture the ribs and nodosities become more equal in size. The base of the shell is flattened, impervious, sculptured with some fifteen close set flattened revolving ribs crossed by impressed radiating lines of growth. The aperture is nearly rectangular. The columella is straight, stout, not projecting, without a callus. The margin is thin, a little crenulated by the sculpture.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea off Cuba; in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil at depths between 37 mm and 220 m.

References
  1. Calliostoma echinatum Dall, 1881. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  2. Dall, W. H. (1881). "Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Caribbean Sea, 1877-79, by the United States Coast Survey Steamer 'Blake,'". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 9: 33–144.
  • Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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