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Calliostoma tigris tigris is a large subspecies of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc. Some authors have placed this genus in the family Calliostomatidae, the Calliostoma top snails, but most malacologists prefer to leave it in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
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Distribution
This subspecies is endemic to New Zealand.
Habitat
This top snail is found from low tide to depths of 130 m under rock ledges in clear water.
Shell description
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The shell of this subspecies is large but rather thin. The early whorls are concave, but the later whorls are strongly convex. The shell exterior has a sculpture of numerous fine granular spirals. There are rather closely-spaced, dark narrow axial stripes, which are a reddish-chestnut color on a creamy-white ground. The aperture and interior of the shell is iridescent, and the operculum is horny and circular, multispiral, with a central nucleus.
The shell height is up to 77 mm, and the width is up to 76 mm.
References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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