Crassispira carbonaria

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

Crassispira carbonaria
Shell of Crassispira carbonaria (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. carbonaria
Binomial name
Crassispira carbonaria
(Reeve, 1843)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pleurotoma carbonaria Reeve, 1843
  • Pleurotoma (Crassispira) carbonaria Reeve, 1843
  • Pleurotoma salsipotens Rochebrune, 1883

Description

The length of the shell varies between 18 mm and 35 mm.

The shell is very solid, with a well-defined shoulder, and sulcate space above it. The longitudinal ribs are low, rounded, closer than in Crassispira bottae. The interspaces are very narrow, crossed by raised revolving lines. The shell is chocolate-colored.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Western Africa, Gabon, Senegal and Guinea Bissau

References
  1. Crassispira carbonaria (Reeve, 1843). 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.
  • Reeve, Lovell. Conchologia Iconica: Or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals: I. Reeve, 1843.
  • Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp
  • Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp.
  • Nolf, F., 2009. Crassispira pseudocarbonaria: a new turrid from the Gulf of Guinea. Neptunea 8(1): 1-18
  • Rochebrune, A.-T. de. (1883). Diagnoses de mollusques nouveaux propres à la Sénégambie. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris. (7) /: 177-182
  • Lamy, E. (1911). Sur quelques mollusques de Sénégambie. Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. 17: 316-319
  • "Crassispira carbonaria". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • MNHN, Paris: holotype
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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