| Pyrgospira tampaensis | |
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| 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] | |
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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]
The size of the shell of this species varies between 10 mm and 32 mm.
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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.