Pyrgospira tampaensis

Pyrgospira tampaensis
Shell of Pyrgospira tampaensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Pyrgospira
Species:	P. tampaensis
Binomial name
Pyrgospira tampaensis (Bartsch & Rehder, 1939)
Synonyms [1]
Crassispira (Crassispirella) tampaensisBartsch & Rehder, 1939 Crassispira tampaensis bartschiL. Perry, 1940

Pyrgospira tampaensis, common name the Tampa turrid, is a species of small to medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae. ^[1]

Description

The size of the shell of this species varies between 10 mm and 32 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and in the Gulf of Mexico; in the Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina, United States, to Northern Brazil; fossils have been found in Quaternary strata in Florida, United States, age range: 2.588 to 0.012 Ma.

References

1. Pyrgospira tampaensis (Bartsch & Rehder, 1939) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 31 March 2010.

• Bartsch, Paul, and Harald A. Rehder. "New turritid mollusks from Florida." Proceedings of the United States National Museum (1939)
• Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
• A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions

External links

• "Pyrgospira tampaensis tampaensis". 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.