Calliotropis ambigua

Calliotropis ambigua
Original drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Calliotropis ambigua
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Calliotropidae
Genus: Calliotropis
Species: C. ambigua
Binomial name
Calliotropis ambigua
(Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896)
Synonyms[1]
  • Eumargarita rhina Dautzenberg (non Watson), 1889
  • Solariella ambigua Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896[2]

Calliotropis ambigua is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliotropidae.[1][3][4]

This species is considered by Dautzenberg & Fischer (1906) as a synonym of Calliotropis vaillanti (Fischer, 1882) but tentatively maintained as separate species by Vilvens & Swennen (2008) [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gofas, S. (2013). Calliotropis ambigua (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at on 14 April 2013
  2. Solariella ambigua Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  3. Dautzenberg, Ph.; Fischer, H. (1906). Mollusques provenant des dragages effectués à l'ouest de l'Afrique pendant les campagnes scientifiques de S.A.S. le Prince de Monaco. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques Accomplies sur son Yacht par Albert Ier Prince Souverain de Monaco, XXXII. Imprimerie de Monaco: Monaco. 125 p., 5 plates.
  4. Vilvens C. & Swennen F. (2008). New records of Calliotropis (Gastropoda: Chilodontidae) from central eastern Atlantic. Novapex, 9(1): 17-32.


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