Calliotropis oros

Calliotropis oros
Shell of Calliotropis oros (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Family: Calliotropidae
Genus: Calliotropis
Species:
C. oros
Binomial name
Calliotropis oros
Vivens, 2007

Calliotropis oros is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eucyclidae and of small deep-water vetigastropod described by Claude Vilvens in 2007 from the southwest Pacific. Vilvens placed it within Calliotropis (then treated in Calliotropinae), and subsequent databases list it in family Eucyclidae/Calliotropidae within superfamily Seguenzioidea (taxonomy in this group has shifted over time).

Subspecies

Description

The length of the shell is between 4 and 6 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Eastern Central Pacific and also off Fiji and New Caledonia.

References

  1. ↑ Calliotropis oros Vivens, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  2. ↑ "New species and new records of Calliotropis" (PDF).
  3. 1 2 "Hardy's Internet Guide to Marine Gastropods". Conchology.
  4. ↑ "Calliotropis oros". www.sealifebase.ca. Retrieved 17 May 2026.