Crassispira sinensis

Crassispira sinensis
Shell of Crassispira sinensis (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. sinensis
Binomial name
Crassispira sinensis (Hinds, 1843)
Synonyms [1]
Brachytoma sinensis (Hinds, 1843) Clavatula sinensisHinds, 1843 Drillia sinensis(Hinds, 1843) Inquisitor sinensis(Hinds, 1843)

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

Description

The shell contains numerous whorls, convex, slightly angulated and noduled on the periphery. They are flexuously longitudinally ribbed below and cancellated by raised revolving lines. The suture is bordered by an obliquely nodulous band. The color of the shell is yellowish or flesh-brown, sometimes narrowly dark-banded at the suture and base. The interior is yellowish. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the South China Sea and off New Guinea.

References

1. Crassispira sinensis (Hinds, 1843) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 4 April 2010.
2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences

• Winckworth, R. (1940). A systematic list of the Investigator Mollusca. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 24: 19–29.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295