Crassispira verbernei

Crassispira verbernei
Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira verbernei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. verbernei
Binomial name
Crassispira verbernei De Jong & Coomans, 1988

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

Description

The shell of Crassispira verbernei is typically elongated and conical, exhibiting prominent axial ribs and a moderately high spire. The aperture is narrow. The shell surface is marked by fine, spiral grooves that run along the whorls. The color of the shells can vary, but they often show a whitish to yellowish hue, with darker lines forming around the spiral grooves. The length of the shell attains 4.8 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Colombia and the Netherlands Antilles.

References

1. Crassispira verbernei Jong & Coomans, 1988 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 4 April 2010.

• De Jong K.M. & Coomans H.E. (1988) Marine gastropods from Curaçao, Aruba and Bonaire. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 261 pp.
• Fallon P.J. (2011) Descriptions and illustrations of some new and poorly known turrids (Turridae) of the tropical northwestern Atlantic. Part 2. Genus Crassispira Swainson, 1840, subgenera Monilispira Bartsch & Rehder, 1939 and Dallspira Bartsch, 1950. The Nautilus 125(1): 15-28

External links

• "Crassispira verbernei". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.