Crassispira tuckerana

Crassispira tuckerana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. tuckerana
Binomial name
Crassispira tuckerana Bonfitto & Morassi, 2004
Synonyms [1]
Crassispira (Crassispirella) tuckeranaBonfitto & Morassi, 2011 Crassispira tuckeriBonfitto & Morassi, 2004 (Invalid: junior homonym of Crassispira tuckeri Le Renard, 1994; Crassispira tuckerana is a replacement name)

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

Distribution

This species is found in the Indian Ocean off Somalia.

References

1. Crassispira tuckerana Bonfitto & Morassi, 2004 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 April 2011.

• Bonfitto A. & Morassi M. 2004. Crassispira (Crassispirella) tuckeri, new species from Somalia, eastern Africa. The Veliger 47(2) : 157-160
• Bonfitto A. & Morassi M. (2011) Crassispira (Crassispirella) tuckerana, a replacement name for Crassispira (Crassispirella) tuckeri Bonfitto & Morassi, 2004 (Gastropoda: Turridae: Crassispirinae) not Crassispira tuckeri Le Renard, 1994. Zootaxa 2767: 57-58

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.