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Calliostoma occidentale (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842) 
AphiaID: 141765

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Vetigastropoda (Subclass) > Trochoidea (Superfamily) > Calliostomatidae (Family) > Calliostomatinae (Subfamily) > Calliostoma (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Calliostoma Swainson, 1840
Synonymised
taxa
  Calliostoma formosum (McAndrew & Forbes, 1847) (junior synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA., available online at http://www.malacolog.org [details]

additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: de Kluijver, M.J.; Ingalsuo, S.S.; de Bruyne, R.H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English boreal topsnail  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål perlemorkjeglesnegl  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk perlemorkjeglesnigel  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Atlantic [details]
Canada [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Navy Island [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Pacific Ocean [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
USA [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: maximum size of 13 mm [details]

Distribution: Range: 60.14°N to 39.98°N; 70.31°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland; Canada; Canada: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick; USA: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Georges Bank, New Jersey [details]

Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]

Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Images 
Calliostoma occidentale - pair
Calliostoma occidentale - pair
added on 2012-01-31 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Calliostoma occidentale
Calliostoma occidentale
added on 2012-07-18 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141765
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Calliostoma occidentale (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141765 on 2013-05-18
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