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Calliostoma tricolor Tricolor Topsnail

Calliostoma tricolor wird umgangssprachlich oft als Dreifarben Kreiselschnecke bezeichnet.


Profilbild Urheber Phil Garner, Southern California Marine Life, USA

Calliostoma tricolor,2020


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lexID:
10244 
AphiaID:
580416 
Scientific:
Calliostoma tricolor 
German:
Dreifarben Kreiselschnecke 
English:
Tricolor Topsnail  
Category:
Snails 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Trochida (Order) > Calliostomatidae (Family) > Calliostoma (Genus) > tricolor (Species) 
Initial determination:
Gabb, 1865 
Occurrence:
Gulf of California 
Sea depth:
16 - 70 Meter 
Size:
0.39" - 0.79" (1,8cm - 2,5cm) 
Temperature:
~ 50 °F (10°C) 
Food:
Algae (Algivore), omnivore 
Difficulty:
Cold water animal 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Calliostoma adelae
  • Calliostoma adspersum
  • Calliostoma africanum
  • Calliostoma agrigentinum
  • Calliostoma aikeni
  • Calliostoma alboregium
  • Calliostoma alisi
  • Calliostoma allporti
  • Calliostoma alternum
  • Calliostoma anderssoni
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2016-12-15 19:22:19 

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Calliostoma tricolor Gabb, 1865

The colour is yellowish brown or olive-gray with a pattern above of three or four spaced spiral rings of alternating brown and white bars.On the base of the shell there is a similarly marked band.

The species is common on kelp and other brown algae.Calliostoma tricolor, commonly known as Tricolor Topsnail is omnivorous.

External links

  1. sealifebase (en). Abgerufen am 28.08.2025.
  2. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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