Crassispira flavocarinata

Crassispira flavocarinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:Crassispira
Species: C. flavocarinata
Binomial name
Crassispira flavocarinata
(Smith E. A., 1882)
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma (Crassispira) flavocarinata Smith E. A., 1882

Crassispira flavocarinata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 5 mm.

The ovate shell contains 9 whorls. The uniform deep brown or chestnut colour, the very stout yellow keel around the upper part of the whorls, and the little numerous ribs on the lower are the principal cliaracteristics. The keel is edged above, or, in other words, is not quite contiguous with the suture. The sculpture is very like that of Crassispira discors (Sowerby I, 1834) [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Panama

References

  1. 1 2 Crassispira flavocarinata (Smith E. A., 1882).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Smith E.A. (1882). Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 5, 10: 206-218
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.



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