Phylum: Mollusca - Order: Trochida

Family: Calliostomatidae Thiele, 1924 (1847)

Calliostoma conulus (Linnaeus, 1758)

S. Maria al Bagno (Lecce, Italy) Ionian Sea

Specie molto comune.

Very common species.

 
Otranto(Lecce, Italy), Ionian Sea, 37m deep.

 

 

S. Maria al Bagno (Lecce, Italy) Ionian Sea.

Bibliography

Trono D., Macrì G. & Renda W. 2023. The latest but not the last: Checklist of the Molluscan fauna of the Salento coast (Apulia, Italy). Boll. Malacol., 59: 59-105 (1, 05/04/2023) https://doi.org/10.53559/Boll Malacol. 2022.19.

Chiappa G., Fassio G., Smriglio C., Mariottini P., Albano P., Modica M.V., Zuccon D., Puillandre N. and Oliverio O. 2024. The polymorphic top-shell puzzle: iterative taxonomy of Calliostoma Swainson, 1840 (Gastropoda: Calliostomatidae), in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Molluscan Studies (2024) 90 : eyae026. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyae026.