Crassispira oliva is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Crassispira oliva
Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira oliva
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. oliva
Binomial name
Crassispira oliva
Fernandes et al, 1995

Description edit

The length of the shell attains 32 mm.

Distribution edit

This marine species occurs off the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola

References edit

  • Fernandes, F., Rolán, E. & Otero-Schmitt, J. (1995) The genus Crassispira (Gastropoda, Turridae) in West Africa. Journal of Conchology, 35, 283–301.

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 oliva". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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