Calliostoma

Calliostoma
A live individual of Calliostoma ligatum with the operculum showing at the back (on the left)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Subfamily: Calliostomatinae
Genus: Calliostoma
Swainson, 1840
Type species
Trochus conulus
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
List
    • Ampullotrochus Monterosato, 1890
    • Calliostoma (Ampullotrochus) Monterosato, 1890
    • Calliostoma (Calliostoma) Swainson, 1840
    • Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) Clench & R. D. Turner, 1960
    • Calliostoma (Eucasta) Dall, 1889
    • Calliostoma (Kombologion) Clench & R. D. Turner, 1960
    • Calliostoma (Leiotrochus) Conrad, 1862
    • Callistoma Herrmannsen, 1846
    • Callistomus Herrmannsen, 1846
    • Conulus Nardo, 1841
    • Elmerlinia Clench & Turner, 1960
    • Eucasta Dall, 1889
    • Fluxina Dall, 1889
    • Jacinthius Monterosato, 1889
    • Kombologion Clench & Turner, 1960
    • Leiotrochus Conrad, 1862
    • Trochus (Calliostoma) Swainson, 1840
    • Trochus (Ziziphinus) Gray, 1842
    • Trochus (Zizyphinus) Gray, 1847
    • Ziziphinus Gray, 1842
    • Zizyphinus [sic]
Apertural view of a shell of Calliostoma trotini

Calliostoma is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails with gills and an operculum, marine gastropod molluscs within the family Calliostomatidae, the Calliostoma top snails. Previously this genus was placed within the family Trochidae. Calliostoma is the type genus of the family Calliostomatidae.

  1. ^ Calliostoma Swainson, 1840. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 October 2010.