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

Crassispira cortezi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. cortezi
Binomial name
Crassispira cortezi
Shasky & Campbell, 1964
Synonyms[1]

Crassiclava cortezi Shasky & Campbell, 1964

Description

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The length of the shell attains 32.4 mm.

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Mexico to Peru.

References

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  • Shasky, Donald R., and G. B. Campbell. "New and otherwise interesting species of mollusks from Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico." Veliger 7.2 (1964): 114–120.
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  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295
  • "Crassiclava cortezi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • James H. McLean & Roy Poorman, A Revised Classification of the Family Turridae, with the Proposal of New Subfamilies, Genera, and Subgenera from the Eastern Pacific; The Veliger vol. 14, 1971