Chauvetia crassior

Chauvetia crassior
Shell of Chauvetia crassior (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Chauvetiidae
Genus:	Chauvetia
Species:	C. crassior
Binomial name
Chauvetia crassior (Odhner, 1932)
Synonyms
Syntagma crassiorOdhner, 1932 superseded combination

Chauvetia crassior is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chauvetiidae, the true whelks. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 4.6 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands.

References

1. Chauvetia crassior (Odhner, 1932) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .

• Odhner, N. H. (1932). Beitrage zur Malakozoologie der Kanarischen Inseln. Lamellibranchien, Cephalopoden, Gastropoden. Arkiv för Zoologi. 23A (14): 1-116, pl. 1-2.