Crassispira flavescens

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

Crassispira flavescens
Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira flavescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. flavescens
Binomial name
Crassispira flavescens
(Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms[1]
  • Crassispira affinis Reeve, 1846 (junior homonym)
  • Crassispira (Crassiclava) affinis (Reeve, 1846)·
  • Drillia flavescens'' (Reeve, 1845)
  • Pleurotoma affinis Reeve, 1846

Description

The length of the shell attains 18 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Saint Vincent (Antilles)

References
  1. Crassispira affinis (Reeve, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  • 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
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • "Crassispira flavescens". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


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