Calliostomatidae is a family of sea snails within the superfamily Trochoidea and the clade Vetigastropoda.
Calliostomatidae is a family of sea snails within the superfamily Trochoidea and the clade Vetigastropoda.
== Description == The Calliostomatidae are unusually diverse. They are characterized by a stepped spire and a pointy aperture. They may possess or lack an umbilicus. The collumella is sometimes thicker, partially covering the aperture. The spiral whorls can differ between narrow and robust. They inhabit a wide range of ocean habitats, from the intertidal zone to mid-bathyal depths.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).