Calliostoma fragum

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| image = Calliostoma fragum 001.jpg

| image_caption = Drawing with two views of a shell of Calliostoma fragum

| taxon = Calliostoma fragum

| authority = (Philippi, 1848) Phiippi., Zeitschr. f Mal. 1848, p. 106

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| synonyms =

  • Trochus fragum Philippi, 1848
  • Zizyphinus fragum Philippi in Reeve

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Calliostoma fragum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.{{WRMS species|216291|Calliostoma fragum (Philippi, 1848)}}

Description

The height of the shell attains 8 mm.

The subperforate shell has a conical shape. It is pale purplish-brown, painted with whitish stripes, with 4 distant series of granules. The eight granulate whorls have their basal margins prominent. The interstices are very delicately obliquely striate. The base is a little convex, sculptured with 8 flat subgranose concentric lirae, each one divided by a furrow into two parts, alternating with narrow elevated lines. The smooth aperture is rhomboidal. The columella is a little oblique, and subtruncate at its base.[https://archive.org/details/manualofconcholo111tryo Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines.

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