Crassispira latizonata

Crassispira latizonata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. latizonata
Binomial name
Crassispira latizonata (Smith E. A., 1882)
Synonyms [1]
Crassispira bandata(Nowell-Usticke, 1971) Drillia bandataNowell-Usticke, 1971(Invalid: unnecessary replacement name for Drillia virgata Nowell-Usticke, 1969, incorrectly assumed to be preoccupied) Drillia ponciana var. virgataNowell-Usticke, 1969 Pleurotoma l(Crassispira) atizonataSmith E. A., 1882 (original combination)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 9 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm.

The solid, acuminate, ovate shell contains 8 whorls. The general aspect of the surface of this shell is granulous, but on closer examination the upper third part of each whorl is found to exhibit only the longitudinal ribs, which are suddenly directed obliquely to the left. The white band occupies about half the whorl, and includes the four upper series of granules. The transverse striation is fine and most easily seen on the upper part of the whorls. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and the Lesser Antilles; also off Brazil.

References

1. Crassispira latizonata (Smith E. A., 1882) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2012.
2. Smith, E.A. (1882) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5, 10, 206–218

• Fallon P.J. (2011) Descriptions and illustrations of some new and poorly known turrids (Turridae) of the tropical northwestern Atlantic. Part 2. Genus Crassispira Swainson, 1840, subgenera Monilispira Bartsch & Rehder, 1939 and Dallspira Bartsch, 1950. The Nautilus 125(1): 15–28.

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 latizonata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.