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Crassispira fuscocincta

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Crassispira fuscocincta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. fuscocincta
Binomial name
Crassispira fuscocincta
(C. B. Adams, 1850)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cerodrillia fuscocincta (C. B. Adams, 1850)
  • Pleurotoma fuscocincta C. B. Adams, 1850

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

Description

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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 of the 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

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This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Jamaica and the ABC Islands

References

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  1. ^ a b 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
  2. ^ 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
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  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • "Cerodrillia fuscocincta". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • De Jong K.M. & Coomans H.E. (1988) Marine gastropods from Curaçao, Aruba and Bonaire. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 261 pp.