Calthalotia baudini
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| Drawing of a shell of Calthalotia baudini | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Calthalotia |
| Species: | C. baudini |
| Binomial name | |
| Calthalotia baudini (P. Fischer, 1878) [1] | |
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Calthalotia baudini is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]
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
- ↑ Fischer, Journ. de Conchyl. 1878, p. 65
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Cantharidus baudini)
- John D. Taylor and Emily A. Glover; Diversity and distribution of subtidal benthic molluscs from the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia; results of the 1999 dredge survey (DA2/99)
- Shirley M. Slack-Smith and Clay W. Bryce; A survey of the benthic molluscs of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia
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