Crassispira verbernei
| Crassispira verbernei | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira verbernei | |
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. verbernei
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| Binomial name | |
| Crassispira verbernei De Jong & Coomans, 1988
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Crassispira verbernei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The shell of Crassispira verbernei is typically elongated and conical, exhibiting prominent axial ribs and a moderately high spire. The aperture is narrow. The shell surface is marked by fine, spiral grooves that run along the whorls. The color of the shells can vary, but they often show a whitish to yellowish hue, with darker lines forming around the spiral grooves. The length of the shell attains 4.8 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Colombia and the Netherlands Antilles
References
[edit]- ^ a b Crassispira verbernei Jong & Coomans, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- De Jong K.M. & Coomans H.E. (1988) Marine gastropods from Curaçao, Aruba and Bonaire. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 261 pp.
- Fallon P.J. (2011) Descriptions and illustrations of some new and poorly known turrids (Turridae) of the tropical northwestern Atlantic. Part 2. Genus Crassispira Swainson, 1840, subgenera Monilispira Bartsch & Rehder, 1939 and Dallspira Bartsch, 1950. The Nautilus 125(1): 15-28
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Crassispira verbernei.
- "Crassispira verbernei". 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.
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