Crassispira apicata

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

Crassispira apicata
Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira apicata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. apicata
Binomial name
Crassispira apicata
(Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms[1]
  • Crassiclava apicata Reeve, 1845
  • Pleurotoma apicata Reeve, 1845

Description

The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 20 mm.

The whorls are concavely flattened above a fine keel, nodosely plaited beneath, plaits fading away towards the lower part. Transversely the shell is impressly striated. The color of the shell is chocolate brown or pale yellow, reddish at the apex.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs from Colombia to Northern Brazil; also off the Virgin Islands.; fossils have been found in Early Pliocene strata of Venezuela.

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References
  1. Crassispira apicata (Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. 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.
  • Fallon P.J. (2011) Descriptions and illustrations of some new and poorly known turrids (Gastropoda: Turridae) of the tropical northwestern Atlantic. Part 3. Genus Crassispira Swainson, 1840, subgenus Crassiclava McLean, 1971. The Nautilus 125(2): 53–62.
  • B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1–221
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • "Crassispira apicata". 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.
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