Crassispira bottae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
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| Shell of Crassispira bottae (holotype in MNHN, Paris) | |
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. bottae
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| Binomial name | |
| Crassispira bottae (Valenciennes in Kiener, 1839)
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ITIS considers this species a synonym of Crassispira incrassata (Sowerby I, 1834) [2] McLean confirmed that Pleurotoma bottae was a synonym of Crassispira incrassata [3] The radula and the morphology was studied by Kantor et al. in 1997 [4]
Description edit
The length of the shell varies between 35 mm and 50 mm.
The ponderous shell is dark chestnut or chocolate. The shell shows a slight shoulder-angle, above which the whorls are slightly concave to a sutural band. Below the shoulder the shell shows close rude longitudinal ribs, sometimes decussated into nodules by the raised revolving lines. Towards the base of the body whorl the latter remain prominent, whilst the former have vanished.[5]
Distribution edit
This marine species occurs off the Sea of Cortez, Western Mexico to Ecuador
References edit
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Crassispira bottae (Valenciennes in Kiener, 1839). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578931 on 2018-07-28
- ^ ITIS: Crassispira incrassata
- ^ McLean in Keen, 1971, Sea shells of tropical West America . Edn 2. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
- ^ Kantor, Y.I., Medinskaya, A.I. & Taylor, J.D. 1997. Foregut anatomy and relationships of the Crassispirinae (Gastropoda, Conoidea). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Zoology), 63: 55–92
- ^ 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.
- Kiener, L.-C., 1839 Genre Pleurotome (Pleurotoma, Lam). Volume 5. In: Species général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes
External links edit
- "Crassispira incrassata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- Denver museum of nature & science: Crassispira bottae