Calliostoma otukai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.[1]

Calliostoma otukai
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Genus: Calliostoma
Species:
C. otukai
Binomial name
Calliostoma otukai
(Ikebe, 1942)
Synonyms
  • Calliostoma (Otukaia) ikukoae Sakurai, 1994
  • Otukaia otukai Ikebe, 1942 (original combination)

Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus Calliostoma (Otukaia).

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Distribution edit

References edit

  • Sakurai, K. (1994). Eight new species of Trochid Genera, Tristichotrochus, Kombologion and Otukaia (Calliostomatinae) from Japan and adjacent waters . Jap. Jour. Malac. (4) 53 : 287-296
  • Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999). Catalogue and bibliography of the marine shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Osaka. : Elle Scientific Publications. 749 pp.