Crassispira semigranosa

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Crassispira semigranosa
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Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira semigranosa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. semigranosa
Binomial name
Crassispira semigranosa
(Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms [1]

Clathurella semigranosa(Reeve, 1846)

Crassispira semigranosa 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 17 mm.

The whorls are concave round the upper part, nodosely ribbed in the middle and granulated beneath. They are whitish, encircled round the lower part with an orange band. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Virgin Islands, the Grenadines and off Brazil

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References

  1. 1 2 MolluscaBase (2018). Crassispira semigranosa (Reeve, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532677 on 2018-07-23
  2. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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