Crassispira maura, common name the dark-coloured pleurotoma, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
| Crassispira maura | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira maura | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Crassispira |
| Species: | C. maura
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| Binomial name | |
| Crassispira maura (Sowerby I, 1834)
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Pleurotoma maura Kiener L.C., 1840 is a synonym of Pilsbryspira aterrima (Sowerby, G.B. I, 1834)
Description edit
The length of the shell varies between 45 mm and 85 mm.
The turreted shell is acuminated and blackish brown. The whorls are tuberculated in the middle, dotted round the lower part, whilst the upper part exhibits a depression from the rilling up of the sinus. The siphonal canal is recurved.[2]
Distribution edit
References edit
- ^ a b Crassispira maura (Sowerby I, 1834). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals; Reeve, Lovell, Brooks, Vincent, Reeve, Frederic, Sowerby, G. B.I (George Brettingham), Taylor, John Edward, Reeve Benham & Reeve, Savill, Edwards and Co., Spottiswoode & Co. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, ; vol.1 (1843)
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- G.B. Sowberby I. Proc. Geol. Soc., 1833, p. 137
- Reeve, Conch. Syst., vol. ii. pi. 133. f. 4.
External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Crassispira maura.
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- "Crassispira maura". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.