Crassispira aurea

Crassispira aurea
Shells of Crassispira aurea (museum specimens at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. aurea
Binomial name
Crassispira aurea Kantor, Stahlschmidt, Aznar-Cormano, Bouchet & Puillandre, 2017

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 20 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Tahiti and in the Society, Tuamotus and Gambier archipelagoes.

References

1. MolluscaBase (2018). Crassispira aurea Kantor, Stahlschmidt, Aznar-Cormano, Bouchet & Puillandre, 2017. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=894271 on 2018-07-28

• Kantor Y.I., Stahlschmidt P., Aznar-Cormano L., Bouchet P. & Puillandre N. (2017). Too familiar to be questioned? Revisiting the Crassispira cerithina species complex (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Pseudomelatomidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 83 (1): 43-55
• Tröndle, J. & Boutet, M. 2009. Inventory of marine molluscs of French Polynesia. Atoll Research Bulletin, 570: 1–87 (as Crassispira cerithina )

External links

• "Crassispira aurea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.