Calthalotia fragum

Calthalotia fragum is the common name of the spotted strawberry top shell or the comtesse's top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.^[2]

Calthalotia fragum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Calthalotia
Species:	C. fragum
Binomial name
Calthalotia fragum (Iredale, 1931) [1]
Synonyms
Calliostoma fragum (Philippi, 1848) Calthalotia comtessa (Iredale, 1931) Odontotrochus indistinctus Wood, 1828 Prothalotia comtessei Iredale, T., 1931 Thalotia comtessei Iredale, 1931 Thalotia marginata Tenison-Woods, 1879 Thalotia zebrides A. Adams, 1853 Trochus decoratus Philippi, 1846 (invalid: junior homonym of Trochus decoratus Hehl, 1832, and T. decoratus Michelotti, 1840) Trochus fragum Philippi, 1848 (original combination) Trochus indistinctus Wood, 1828 Trochus pyrgos Philippi, 1855 Zizyphius fragum Philippi, 1848

Description

The size of an adult shell of this species varies between 8 mm and 25 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Southeast Australia, Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and Japan.