Crassispira tasconium

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

Crassispira tasconium
Original image of a shell of Crassispira tasconium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. tasconium
Binomial name
Crassispira tasconium
(Melvill & Standen, 1901)
Synonyms[1]

Drillia tasconium Melvill & Standen, 1901

Description

The length of the shell attains 23 mm, its diameter 9.5 mm.

The fusiform shell is dark white or straw-colored. It contains 8–10 whorls (in the holotype the protoconch is lacking). The suture is profoundly impressed. The whole build of the shell is coarse, though of a light rather than massive consistency. Particularly conspicuous are the spiral sulci deeply furrowing the summit of each whorl, leaving a narrow noduled space between them and the sutures. The ovate aperture has a dark interior. The thin outer lip is slightly expanded. The sinus is wide and deep. The white columella is straight. The siphonal canal is short and straight.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman

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References
  1. Crassispira tasconium (Melvill & Standen, 1901). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. Melvill & Standen (1901) Mollusks from the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. v. 2, 1901 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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