Crassispira aurea
Crassispira aurea | |
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Shells of Crassispira aurea (museum specimens at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Crassispira |
Species: | C. aurea
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Binomial name | |
Crassispira aurea Kantor, Stahlschmidt, Aznar-Cormano, Bouchet & Puillandre, 2017
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Crassispira aurea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
Description[]
The length of the shell attains 20 mm.
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Distribution[]
This marine species occurs off Tahiti and in the Society, Tuamotus and Gambier archipelagoes.
References[]
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Crassispira aurea Kantor, Stahlschmidt, Aznar-Cormano, Bouchet & Puillandre, 2017. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=894271 on 2018-07-28
- Kantor Y.I., Stahlschmidt P., Aznar-Cormano L., Bouchet P. & Puillandre N. (2017). Too familiar to be questioned? Revisiting the Crassispira cerithina species complex (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Pseudomelatomidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 83 (1): 43-55
- Tröndle, J. & Boutet, M. 2009. Inventory of marine molluscs of French Polynesia. Atoll Research Bulletin, 570: 1–87 (as Crassispira cerithina)
External links[]
- "Crassispira aurea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
Categories:
- Crassispira
- Gastropods described in 2017
- Pseudomelatomidae stubs