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Calliotropis oros

Calliotropis oros is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eucyclidae and of small deep-water vetigastropod described by Claude Vilvens in 2007 from the southwest Pacific. Vilvens placed it within Calliotropis (then treated in Calliotropinae), and subsequent databases list it in family Eucyclidae/Calliotropidae within superfamily Seguenzioidea (taxonomy in this group has shifted over time).

Subspecies:
  • Calliotropis oros marquisensis <small>Vilvens, 2007</small>
  • Calliotropis oros oros <small>Vilvens, 2007</small>

Description

The length of the shell is between 4 and 6 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Fiji and New Caledonia.

References

  • Vilvens C. (2007) New records and new species of Calliotropis from Indo-Pacific. Novapex 8 (Hors Série 5): 1–72.

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