Dornellas, A. P. S. 2012. Description of a new species of Calliostoma (Gastropoda, Calliostomatidae) from Southeastern Brazil. ZooKeys 224: 89-106.

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10.3897/zookeys.224.3684 [view]

Dornellas, A. P.

2012

224, 89-106

Publication

http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/3684/description-of-a-new-species-of-calliostoma-gastropoda-calliostomatidae-from-southeastern-brazil

Calliostoma tupinamba is a new species from Southeastern Brazil, ranging from southern Rio de Janeiro to northern São Paulo, and found only on coastal islands, on rocks and sessile invertebrates at 3 to 5 meters of depth. Shell and soft part morphology is described here in detail. Calliostoma tupinamba is mainly characterized by a depressed trochoid shell; eight slightly convex whorls; a sharply suprasutural carina starting on the third whorl and forming a peripheral rounded keel; and a whitish, funnel-shaped and deep umbilicus, measuring about 5%–10% of maximum shell width. Calliostoma tupinamba resembles C. bullisi Clench & Turner, 1960 in shape, but differs from it in being taller and wider, having a smaller umbilicus and lacking a strong and large innermost spiral cord at its base. Finally, an identification key of Brazilian Calliostoma species is presented.

America, South

Gastropoda

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