Crassispira bottae

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Crassispira bottae
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Shell of Crassispira bottae (holotype in MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. bottae
Binomial name
Crassispira bottae
(Valenciennes in Kiener, 1839)
Synonyms [1]
  • Drillia bottae(Valenciennes in Kiener, 1839)
  • Pleurotoma bottaeValenciennes in Kiener, 1839 (original combination)

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

Contents

ITIS considers this species a synonym of Crassispira incrassata (Sowerby I, 1834) [2] McLean confirmed that Pleurotoma bottae was a synonym of Crassispira incrassata [3] The radula and the morphology was studied by Kantor et al. in 1997 [4]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 35 mm and 50 mm.

The ponderous shell is dark chestnut or chocolate. The shell shows a slight shoulder-angle, above which the whorls are slightly concave to a sutural band. Below the shoulder the shell shows close rude longitudinal ribs, sometimes decussated into nodules by the raised revolving lines. Towards the base of the body whorl the latter remain prominent, whilst the former have vanished. [5]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Sea of Cortez, Western Mexico to Ecuador

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References

  1. 1 2 MolluscaBase (2018). Crassispira bottae (Valenciennes in Kiener, 1839). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578931 on 2018-07-28
  2. ↑ ITIS: Crassispira incrassata
  3. ↑ McLean in Keen, 1971, Sea shells of tropical West America . Edn 2. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
  4. ↑ Kantor, Y.I., Medinskaya, A.I. & Taylor, J.D. 1997. Foregut anatomy and relationships of the Crassispirinae (Gastropoda, Conoidea). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Zoology), 63: 55–92
  5. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
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