''Calthalotia fragum'', common name the spotted strawberry top shell or the comtesse's top shell, is a
species
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of
sea snail, a
marine gastropod mollusk
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in the
family
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Trochidae
The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a family of various sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Vetigastropoda. This family is commonly known as the top-snails because in many species the shell resemb ...
, the top snails.
[MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Calthalotia fragum (Philippi, 1848). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1350270 on 2019-07-20]
Description
The size of an adult shell of this species varies between 8 mm and 25 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Southeast
Australia,
Queensland
)
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,
Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
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,
New South Wales
)
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and
Japan.
References
* Wood, W. 1828. ''Index Testaceologicus; or A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system.'' London : Taylor Supplement, 1-59, pls 1-8.
* Adams, A. 1853. ''Contributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gastropodous Mollusca''. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1851(19): 150-192
* Philippi, R.A. 1855. ''Trochidae''. pp. 249–328 in Küster, H.C. (ed). Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2.
* Hedley, C. 1901. ''Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part IV''. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26: 16-25
* Allan, J.K. 1950. ''Australian Shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land''. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs.
* Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. ''A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales''. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1-109
* Short, J.W. & Potter, D.G. 1987. ''Shells of Queensland and The Great Barrier Reef''. Drummoyne, NSW : Golden press Pty Ltd 135 pp., 60 pl.
* Hickman, C.S. & McLean, J.H. 1990. ''Systematic revision and suprageneric classification of trochacean gastropods''. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Science Series 35: i-vi, 1-169
* Wilson B. (1993) ''Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Vol. 1.'' Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, Western Australia, 408 pp
External links
Philippi, R.A. 1846. ''Diagnoses testaceorum quorundam novarum''. Malakozoologische Blätter 1846: 97-106Philippi, R.A. 1849. ''Centuria altera Testaceorum novorum''. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 5: 99-112Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. ''On some new marine shells from Moreton Bay''. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4(1): 108-111Iredale, T. (1931). Australian molluscan notes. Nº I. Records of the Australian Museum. 18: 201-235 To World Register of Marine Species*
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fragum
Gastropods of Australia
Gastropods described in 1931