Biology:Crassispira guildingii
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Short description: Species of gastropod
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| Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira guildingii | |
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. guildingii
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| Crassispira guildingii (Reeve, 1845)
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Crassispira guildingii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell varies attains 8 mm.
The whorls are slightly concavely shouldered above, nodosely plicated beneath, transversely very closely striated. The color of the shell is very dark chocolate or blackish, interior same color.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off St. Vincent (Antilles) and the West Indies.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 MolluscaBase (2018). Crassispira guildingii (Reeve, 1845). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532674 on 24 July 2018
- ↑ 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.
- 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.
External links
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Zootaxa 682: 1–1295. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf.
- Clathurella guildingii[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
Wikidata ☰ Q13500452 entry
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