Calthalotia baudini

Calthalotia baudini is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

Calthalotia baudini
Drawing of a shell of Calthalotia baudini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Calthalotia
Species:
C. baudini
Binomial name
Calthalotia baudini
(P. Fischer, 1878) [1]
Synonyms
  • Cantharidus baudini (Fischer, 1878)
  • Prothalotia baudini (P. Fischer, 1878)
  • Trochus baudini Fischer, 1878 (original description)

Description

The size of the shell attains 15 mm. The rather thick, imperforate shell has a conic-elongate shape. The 6 to 7 whorls are planulate, the first buff, eroded, the following whitish, ornamented with sparse rosy points and angular chestnut streaks . The shell is spirally lirate, with about 8 lirae on the penultimate whorl. The subangular body whorl is depressed above. The base of the shell is convex, with about 8 concentric lirae. Tnere is no umbilical perforation. The aperture is rhomboidal. The lip is simple. The short columella is subnodose-truncate below.[3]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Western Australia and King Island, South Australia.

References
  1. Fischer, Journ. de Conchyl. 1878, p. 65
  2. Marshall, B. (2013). Calthalotia baudini (P. Fischer, 1878). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=719240 on 2014-01-08
  3. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Cantharidus baudini)
  • To World Register of Marine Species
  • "Prothalotia baudini". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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