Crassispira rudis, common name the rustic pleurotoma, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
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| Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira rudis | |
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. rudis
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| Binomial name | |
| Crassispira rudis (Sowerby I, 1834)
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Description edit
The length of the shell varies between 11 mm and 28 mm.
(Original description) The thick, turreted shell is very dark brown, almost black. The whorls are contracted in the middle, tuberculated above and below, each of the lower tubercles having a white spot above it. The body whorl is rather out of the centre. The siphonal canal is short. The outer lip is thin, sinuous, armed above the sinus with a strong callosity [2]
Distribution edit
This marine species occurs between the Sea of Cortez, Western Mexico and Ecuador
References edit
- ^ a b Crassispira rudis (Sowerby I, 1834). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals; Reeve, Lovell, Brooks, Vincent, Reeve, Frederic, Sowerby, G. B. (George Brettingham), Taylor, John Edward, Reeve Benham & Reeve, Savill, Edwards and Co., Spottiswoode & Co. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, ; vol.1 (1843)
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- G.B. Sowerby I (1833), Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 138
External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Crassispira rudis.
- 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 (Gibbaspira) rudis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- W.H. Dall (1909), Report on the collection of shells from Peru ;Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 37, pages 147–294, with Plates 20—28