Crassispira rudis

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Crassispira rudis
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Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira rudis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. rudis
Binomial name
Crassispira rudis
(Sowerby I, 1834)
Synonyms [1]
  • Crassispira albovallosaCarpenter, P.P., 1856
  • Drillia rudis(G.B. Sowerby I, 1834)
  • Pleurotoma rudisSowerby I, 1834 (original combination)

Crassispira rudis, common name the rustic pleurotoma, 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 varies between 11 mm and 28 mm.

(Original description) The thick, turreted shell is very dark brown, almost black. The whorls are contracted in the middle, tuberculated above and below, each of the lower tubercles having a white spot above it. The body whorl is rather out of the centre. The siphonal canal is short. The outer lip is thin, sinuous, armed above the sinus with a strong callosity [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs between the Sea of Cortez, Western Mexico and Ecuador

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