Crassispira fuscocincta

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Crassispira fuscocincta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. fuscocincta
Binomial name
Crassispira fuscocincta
(C. B. Adams, 1850)
Synonyms [1]
  • Cerodrillia fuscocincta(C. B. Adams, 1850)
  • Pleurotoma fuscocinctaC. B. Adams, 1850

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

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Description

The length of the shell attains 10.5 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.

(Original description) The shell has an elevate pyramidal shape. The shell contains 7-8 whorls, not convex and with the suture not impressed. The color of the shell pale is yellowish white with a sutural line of brown, anteriorly wax yellow with revolving lines of yellowish white, with a spiral series of large smooth well-rounded nodules on slightly elevated wide ridges on the lower half of the whorls; anteriorly with a few spiral raised lines. The apex is acute. The spire shows a rectilineal outline. The aperture is rather wide. The siphonal canal is very short. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Jamaica and the ABC Islands

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