Crassispira fuscocincta
| Crassispira fuscocincta | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Crassispira |
| Species: | C. fuscocincta |
| Binomial name | |
| Crassispira fuscocincta (C. B. Adams, 1850) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Crassispira fuscocincta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 10.5 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.
(Original description) The shell has an elevate pyramidal shape. The shell contains 7-8 whorls, not convex and with the suture not impressed. The color of the shell pale is yellowish white with a sutural line of brown, anteriorly wax yellow with revolving lines of yellowish white, with a spiral series of large smooth well-rounded nodules on slightly elevated wide ridges on the lower half oft he whorls; anteriorly with a few spiral raised lines. The apex is acute. The spire shows a rectilineal outline. The aperture is rather wide. The siphonal canal is very short.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Jamaica and the ABC Islands
References
- 1 2 MolluscaBase (2018). Crassispira fuscocincta (C. B. Adams, 1850). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532673 on 2018-08-07
- ↑ Adams, C. B. 1850. Description of supposed new species of marine shells which inhabit Jamaica. Contributions to Conchology, 4: 56-68, 109-123
- Fallon P.J. (2011) Descriptions and illustrations of some new and poorly known turrids (Turridae) of the tropical northwestern Atlantic. Part 2. Genus Crassispira Swainson, 1840, subgenera Monilispira Bartsch & Rehder, 1939 and Dallspira Bartsch, 1950. The Nautilus 125(1): 15-28