Crassispira incrassata

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Crassispira incrassata
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. incrassata
Binomial name
Crassispira incrassata
(Sowerby I, 1834)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia incrassata (Sowerby I, 1834)
  • Pleurotoma incrassata Sowerby I, 1834

Crassispira incrassata, common name the thickened pleurotoma, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

ITIS considers Crassispira bottae a synonym of Crassispira incrassata [2] McLean confirmed that Pleurotoma bottae was a synonym of Crassispira incrassata [3] The radula and the morphology was studied by Kantor et al. in 1997 [4]

Description[]

The length of the shell varies between 30 mm and 50 mm.

The shell is acuminately pyramidal, thick, blackish. The whorls are obsoletely keeled near the suture, keel interrupted, longitudinally ribbed beneath, ribs grained and crossed with raised lines. The outer lip is thickened near the edge. The sinus is broad. The siphonal canal is short.[5]

Distribution[]

This marine species occurs from the Sea of Cortez, Western Mexico to Ecuador

References[]

  • G.B. Sowberby I. Proc. Geol. Soc., 1833, p. 137

External links[]

  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • "Crassispira incrassata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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