Crassispira flavescens

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 affinisReeve, 1846 (junior homonym) Crassispira (Crassiclava) affinis(Reeve, 1846)· Drillia flavescens(Reeve, 1845) Pleurotoma affinisReeve, 1846

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

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

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• "Crassispira flavescens". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.