Crassispira takeokensis

Crassispira takeokensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. takeokensis
Binomial name
Crassispira takeokensis (Y. Otuka, 1949)
Synonyms
Brachytoma takeokensisY. Otuka, 1949 Clathrodrillia takeokensis(Y. Otuka, 1949) Ptychobela takeokaensisOtuka, Y., 1949

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 21.4 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan found at depths between 740 m and 1030 m.

References

1. MolluscaBase (2018). Crassispira takeokensis (Otuka, 1949). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=580271 on 2018-09-05

• Otuka, Y., 1949: Fossil Mollusca and rocks of the Kiyosumi group exposed at Minato-machi, Chiba Prefecture, and its environs (1st paper). Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography, vol. 21, nos. 1–4, pp. 295–309, pl. 13.
• Hasegawa, K., Okutani, T. and E. Tsuchida (2000) Family Turridae. In: Okutani, T. (ed.), Marine Mollusks in Japan. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 619-667
• Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225-383
• Hasegawa K. & Okutani T. (2011) A review of bathyal shell-bearing gastropods in Sagami Bay. Memoirs of the National Sciences Museum, Tokyo 47: 97-144

External links

• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Crassispira takeokensis