Crassispira semigranosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
| Crassispira semigranosa | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira semigranosa | |
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. semigranosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Crassispira semigranosa (Reeve, 1846)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Clathurella semigranosa (Reeve, 1846) | |
Description edit
The length of the shell attains 17 mm.
The whorls are concave round the upper part, nodosely ribbed in the middle and granulated beneath. They are whitish, encircled round the lower part with an orange band.[2]
Distribution edit
This marine species occurs off the Virgin Islands, the Grenadines and off Brazil
References edit
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Crassispira semigranosa (Reeve, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532677 on 2018-07-23
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Reeve, L. 1846. Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma Conchologia Iconica 1 pls. 34-40
External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Crassispira semigranosa.
- 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 semigranosa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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