Calliostoma gloriosum; Top Snail; <small>(shown with <a href=/cgi/img_query?where-taxon=Corynactis+californica&title_tag=Corynactis+californica>Corynactis californica</a>)</small>

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Calliostoma gloriosum; Top Snail; (shown with Corynactis californica)

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Calliostoma gloriosum
Top Snail
(shown with Corynactis californica)

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0906 0900 (2006-09-23)

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date of photo 1984

latitude 36.81856 longitude -121.79270 max error distance 26012 meters View on Google Maps.

horizontal datum World Geodetic System 1984

georeferencing source GeoLocate

location Monterey Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

family Trochidae

order Archaeogastropoda

class gastropoda

habitat Marine

notes This topsnail covers its shell with a heavy coating of mucus which makes it difficult for its predators to grasp it.

camera Nikon in Oceanic housing

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Top Snail (photographer)

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