Crassispira terebra

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Crassispira terebra
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Shells of Crassispira terebra (specimens at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. terebra
Binomial name
Crassispira terebra
(de Basterot, 1825)
Synonyms
  • † Drillia losquemadica(B. de Basterot, 1825)
  • † Pleurotoma terebraB. de Basterot, 1825

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

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Description

The length of the shell attains 28 mm. William Swainson, an English malacologist, published a book in 1840 in which he describes this genus of molluscs as having a "shell tuberculated", being "club-shaped" and its "aperture widest in the middle." [2]

Distribution

Fossils have been found in Oligocene strata in Aquitaine, France.

References

  1. ↑ MNHN, Paris: Crassispira terebra
  2. ↑ Swainson, William; Swainson, William; Berry, S. Stillman (1840). Treatise on Malacology; or, the natural classification of shells and shell fish. By William Swainson ... London: Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans [etc.]


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