Crassispira cubensis

Crassispira cubensis
Shell of Crassispira cubensis (specimen in the Natural History Museum Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. cubensis
Binomial name
Crassispira cubensis (E. A. Smith, 1882)
Synonyms [1]
Crassispira luctuosa(A. d'Orbigny, 1847) Pleurotoma (Crassispira) cubensisE. A. Smith, 1882 (basionym) Pleurotoma luctuosaOrbigny, A.V.M.D. d', 1847

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 10 and 20 mm. The maximum recorded shell length is 11 mm. ^{[2] [ These two statements conflict. ]}

Original description

"Given that the specific name luctuosa had already been assigned by Hinds to a Californian species within the Pleurotomidae, I (i.e. E. A. Smith) found it necessary to introduce cubensis as the new trivial name for this West-Indian shell." ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species lives in a benthic habitat off the tropical, West Atlantic ^[2] coast of Cuba and the Virgin Islands. ^[4]

References

1. Crassispira cubensis(E. A. Smith, 1882) . 27 July 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. "Crassispira luctuosa". www.sealifebase.se. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
3. Smith, E.A. (1882). "Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 5 (10): 211. Retrieved 27 July 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
4. "Crassispira luctuosa - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on Animalia.bio". animalia.bio. Retrieved 27 July 2025.

External links

• Orbigny, A. d'. (1841-1853). Mollusques. In: R. de la Sagra (ed.). Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'Ile de Cuba. Arthus Bertrand, Paris.
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.