Pyrgospira tampaensis

Pyrgospira tampaensis, common name the Tampa turrid, is a species of small to medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

Pyrgospira tampaensis
Shell of Pyrgospira tampaensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Pyrgospira
Species:	P. tampaensis
Binomial name
Pyrgospira tampaensis (Bartsch & Rehder, 1939)
Synonyms
Crassispira (Crassispirella) tampaensis Bartsch & Rehder, 1939 Crassispira tampaensis bartschi L. Perry, 1940

Description

The size of the shell of this species varies between 10 mm and 32 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and in the Gulf of Mexico; in the Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina, USA, to Northern Brazil; fossils have been found in Quaternary strata in Florida, USA, age range: 2.588 to 0.012 Ma.

References

• Bartsch, Paul, and Harald A. Rehder. "New turritid mollusks from Florida." Proceedings of the United States National Museum (1939)
• Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
• A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions

External links

• "Pyrgospira tampaensis tampaensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.