Calliostoma multigemmata

Taxobox
name = "Calliostoma multigemmata"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
familia = Calliostomatidae
genus = "Calliostoma"
species = "C. multigemmata"
binomial = "Calliostoma multigemmata"
binomial_authority = Powell, 1952

"Calliostoma multigemmata" is a medium-sized deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc. Some authors have considered this genus belongs in the family Calliostomatidae, other malacologists have left it in the family Trochidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is found off the eastern Otago coast of the South Island.

Habitat

This top shell is found at depths of between 90 and 130 m.

hell description

The shell is large, thin and tall-spired, with convex whorls, sculptured with very numerous fine gemmulate spiral cords.

The external shell coloration is buff, faintly speckled with light brown between the gemmules.

The shell height is up to 54 mm, and the width is up to 50 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1