Crassispira sinensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
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| Shell of Crassispira sinensis (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
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. sinensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Crassispira sinensis (Hinds, 1843)
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Description edit
The shell contains numerous whorls, convex, slightly angulated and noduled on the periphery. They are flexuously longitudinally ribbed below and cancellated by raised revolving lines. The suture is bordered by an obliquely nodulous band. The color of the shell is yellowish or flesh-brown, sometimes narrowly dark-banded at the suture and base. The interior is yellowish.[2]
Distribution edit
This marine species occurs in the China Sea and off New Guinea.
References edit
- Winckworth, R. (1940). A systematic list of the Investigator Mollusca. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 24: 19–29.