Tristichotrochus aculeatus

Tristichotrochus aculeatus
shell of Tristichotrochus aculeatus aliguayensis (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Genus: Tristichotrochus
Species:
T. aculeatus
Binomial name
Tristichotrochus aculeatus
Synonyms[1]
  • Calliostoma aculeatum aculeatum G.B. Sowerby III, 1912
  • Calliostoma (Calliostoma) aculeatum G.B. Sowerby III, 1912
  • Calliostoma (Tristichotrochus) aculeatum aculeatum (G.B. Sowerby III, 1912)
  • Tristichotrochus aculeatus aculeatus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1912)· accepted, alternate representation

Tristichotrochus aculeatus, common name the prickly Japanese top shell, is a species of medium-sized deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Calliostomatinae of the family Calliostomatidae.[1]

Subspecies
  • Tristichotrochus aculeatus aculeatus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1912)
  • Tristichotrochus aculeatus aliguayensis (Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006)
  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Tristichotrochus aculeatus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1912). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=880976 on 2021-06-17