Crassispira appressa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
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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. appressa
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| Binomial name | |
| Crassispira appressa (Carpenter, 1864)
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Description edit
The length of the shell varies between 7.5 mm and 12 mm.
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Distribution edit
This marine species occurs off Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico
References edit
- ^ a b Crassispira appressa (Carpenter, 1864). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- Carpenter. Ann. Mag. N. H., 1864, xiv, p. 46
- Carpenter P. (1872) The Mollusks of Western North America, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
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External links edit
- 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 (Monilispira) appressa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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