Crassispira quadrifasciata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
| Crassispira quadrifasciata | |
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| Shell of Crassispira quadrifasciata (specimen in MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Crassispira |
| Species: | C. quadrifasciata
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| Crassispira quadrifasciata (Reeve, 1845)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 13 mm.
The shape of the shell is pyramidal. The whorls are encircled with a single keel above and below, longitudinally closely ridged in the middle. The keels are whitish, the middle of the whorls bluish brown, ridges whitish. The aperture is small. The siphonal canal is very short.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Southeastern USA; Honduras; Cuba, Jamaica, and Northern Brazil
References
edit- ^ a b Crassispira quadrifasciata (Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Reeve, Lovell Augustus. Conchologia Iconica: Or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals: III. Reeve, 1845.
- Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 105
- Espinosa J., Ortea J. & Diez García Y. (2017). Nuevas especies y nuevos registros de moluscos gasterópodos (Mollusca: Gastropoda) marinos de la región oriental de Cuba. Avicennia. 21: 59–67
External links
edit- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- "Crassispira quadrifasciata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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