Crassispira erebus

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

Crassispira erebus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. erebus
Binomial name
Crassispira erebus
Pilsbry and Lowe, 1932

Description

The length of the shell attains 24 mm, its diameter 9 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Southern Mexico to Nicaragua

References
  1. H. A. Pilsbry and H. N. Lowe, West Mexican and Central American Mollusks Collected by H. N. Lowe, 1929-31; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Vol. 84 (1932), pp. 33-144
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • Gastropods.com: Crassispira erebus


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