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 Vilvens, 2007 Calliotropis oros oros Vilvens, 2007
Description
The length of the shell is between 4 and 6 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs in the Eastern Central Pacific and also 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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