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Crassispira terebra

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Crassispira terebra
Shells of Crassispira terebra (specimens at MNHN, Paris)
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. terebra
Binomial name
Crassispira terebra
(de Basterot, 1825)
Synonyms
  • Drillia losquemadica (B. de Basterot, 1825)
  • Pleurotoma terebra B. de Basterot, 1825

Crassispira terebra is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Description

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The length of the shell attains 28 mm. William Swainson, an English malacologist, published a book in 1840 in which he describes this genus of molluscs as having a "shell tuberculated", being "club-shaped" and its "aperture widest in the middle."[2]

Distribution

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Fossils have been found in Oligocene strata in Aquitaine, France.

References

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  1. ^ MNHN, Paris: Crassispira terebra
  2. ^ Swainson, William; Swainson, William; Berry, S. Stillman (1840). Treatise on Malacology; or, the natural classification of shells and shell fish. By William Swainson ... London: Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans [etc.]
  • Basterot, B. de. Description géologique du Bassin Tertiaire du Sud-Ouest de la France: Mémoires de la Sociéte d'histoire naturelle de Paris. 1825.
  • Lozouet (P.), 2017 Les Conoidea de l’Oligocène supérieur (Chattien) du bassin de l’Adour (Sud-Ouest de la France). Cossmanniana, t. 19, p. 1-179
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