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Calliostoma vicdani

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ5022552 ↗
Source-derived summary

Calliostoma vicdani is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.

Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus Calliostoma (Kombologion).

Description

The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 33 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines.

References

External links

"Calliostoma (Kombologian) vicdani". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.

Editorial summary

“Calliostoma vicdani” enters the record as species of mollusc. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Calliostoma, vicdani and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Calliostoma, vicdani and species.
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Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5022552. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Calliostoma vicdani” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.