Calliotropis crystalophora

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| image_caption = Shell of Calliotropis crystalophora (specimen at MNHN, Paris)

| taxon = Calliotropis crystalophora

| authority = Marshall, 1979

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| synonyms = Calliotropis crystalophorus Marshall, 1979 (original combination; incorrect gender ending)

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Calliotropis crystalophora is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eucyclidae.{{WRMS species|446299|Calliotropis crystalophora Marshall, 1979}}

Description

The shell can grow to 4.5 mm.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gastropods.com/3/Shell_31333.shtml|title=Calliotropis crystalophora|website=www.gastropods.com|access-date=2020-04-07}}

Distribution

It's found in the Southwest Pacific from New Caledonia to Tonga.

Its type locality is southeast of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands ({{Coord|29|16.5|S|177|14.5|W}}).

It is classified as "range restricted",{{cite journal|last1=Freeman|first1=DJ|last2=Marshall|first2=BA|last3=Ahyong|first3=ST|last4=Wing|first4=SR|last5=Hitchmough|first5=RA|title=Conservation status of New Zealand marine invertebrates, 2009|journal=New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research|date=2010|volume=44|issue=3|page=143|doi=10.1080/00288330.2010.495373|doi-access=free}}{{cite book|last1=Freeman|first1=D.|title=Conservation status of New Zealand marine invertebrates, 2013|last2=Schnabel|first2=K.|last3=Marshall|first3=B.|last4=Gordon|first4=D.|last5=Wing|first5=S.|last6=Tracey|first6=D.|last7=Hitchmough|first7=R.|date=2014|publisher=Department of Conservation|isbn=978-0-478-15032-2|location=Wellington|author-link6=Dianne Tracey}} which means its range is less than {{convert|1000|km2|abbr=on}}.{{cite book|last1=Townsend|first1=A. J.|last2=de Lange|first2=P. J.|last3=Duffy|first3=C. A. J.|last4=Miskelly|first4=C. M.|last5=Molly|first5=J.|last6=Norton|first6=D. A.|title=New Zealand Threat Classification System Manual|date=2008|publisher=Department of Conservation|location=Wellington, N.Z.|isbn=978-0-478-14364-5|page=29|url=http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/science-and-technical/sap244.pdf}}

References

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{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=B. A.|title=The Trochidae and Turbinidae of the Kermadec Ridge (Mollusca: Gastropoda)|journal=New Zealand Journal of Zoology|date=1979|volume=6|issue=4|page=530|doi=10.1080/03014223.1979.10428396|doi-access=free}}

{{cite journal|last=Vilvens |first=Claud |date=2007 |title=New records and new species of Calliotropis from Indo-Pacific |journal=Novapex |series=Hors Série |volume=5|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42353587|pages=15–16}}

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crystalophora

Category:Gastropods described in 1979