Crassispira quadrifasciata

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

Crassispira quadrifasciata
Shell of Crassispira quadrifasciata (specimen in MNHN, Paris)
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. quadrifasciata
Binomial name
Crassispira quadrifasciata
(Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia quadrifasciata (Reeve, 1845)
  • Pleurotoma quadrifasciata Reeve, 1845
  • Pleurotoma (Crassispira) quadrifasciata Reeve, 1845

Description

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The length of the shell attains 13 mm.

The shape of the shell is pyramidal. The whorls are encircled with a single keel above and below, longitudinally closely ridged in the middle. The keels are whitish, the middle of the whorls bluish brown, ridges whitish. The aperture is small. The siphonal canal is very short.[2]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Southeastern USA; Honduras; Cuba, Jamaica, and Northern Brazil

References

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  • Reeve, Lovell Augustus. Conchologia Iconica: Or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals: III. Reeve, 1845.
  • Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 105
  • Espinosa J., Ortea J. & Diez García Y. (2017). Nuevas especies y nuevos registros de moluscos gasterópodos (Mollusca: Gastropoda) marinos de la región oriental de Cuba. Avicennia. 21: 59–67
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  • 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 quadrifasciata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.