A new acteonid species, collected in the Central Tyrrhenian Sea, is here described. It is placed in Callostracon Hamlin, 1884, and named C. tyrrhenicum. The description is based on shell morphology only. Remarks on the four bathyal and the three infralittoral species of the family Acteonidae known from the Mediterranean Sea, are also featured.

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Carlo Smriglio, & Paolo Mariottini. (1996). Central Tyrrhenian sea Mollusca: XI. Description of Callostracon tyrrhenicum sp. nov. (Gastropoda, Acteonidae) and remarks on the other Mediterranean species of the family Acteonidae d’Orbigny, 1835. Basteria, 60(4/6), 183–193.