Crassispira chazaliei

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

Crassispira chazaliei
Shell of Crassispira chazaliei (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. chazaliei
Binomial name
Crassispira chazaliei
(Dautzenberg, 1900)
Synonyms[1]
  • Crassispira anthamilla (Melvill, 1923)
  • Drillia anthamilla Melvill, 1923
  • Drillia chazaliei Dautzenberg, 1900
  • Hindsiclava chazaliei (Dautzenberg, 1900)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 43 mm.

The shell has a narrowly fusiform shape. Its surface is rather dull and blackish-fuscous. It contains 11 whorls, of which the apical are smooth, shining, apparently carinate centrally, but the type specimen is a little worn and imperfect in this particular. The lower whorls are suturally impressed just below the sutures, at the summit of each whorl, once spirally acutely keeled, the remaining portion being rather ventricose, longitudinally obliquely multicostate, crossed by, on the four penultimate whorls, three to five spiral revolving lines, gemmulate at the several points of junction with the ribs. The gemmules are shining, often pale. The body whorl possesses fourteen such lirae, with over twenty closely grained ribs. The aperture is narrow and oblong. The outer lip is not effuse, columellar nearly straight, the sinus shallow, but well expressed. The siphonal canal is slightly recurved.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea from Panama to Suriname

References
  1. Crassispira chazaliei (Dautzenberg, 1900). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 14-15 (1923) (described as Drillia anthamilla )
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. "Croizière du yacht Chazalie dans l’Atlantique. Mollusques." Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France 13 (1900): 1-50.
  • Daccarett, E. Y. & Bossio, V. S. 2011. Colombian Seashells from the Caribbean Sea. L'Informatore Piceno. 384pp.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • "Hindsiclava chazaliei". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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