Crassispira guildingii

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

Crassispira guildingii
Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira guildingii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. guildingii
Binomial name
Crassispira guildingii
(Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clathurella guildingii (Reeve, 1845)
  • Pleurotoma guildingii Reeve, 1845

Description

The length of the shell varies attains 8 mm.

The whorls are slightly concavely shouldered above, nodosely plicated beneath, transversely very closely striated. The color of the shell is very dark chocolate or blackish, interior same color.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off St. Vincent (Antilles) and the West Indies.

References
  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Crassispira guildingii (Reeve, 1845). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532674 on 24 July 2018
  2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Reeve, Lovell Augustus. Conchologia Iconica: Or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals: III. Reeve, 1845.
  • Fallon P.J. (2011) Descriptions and illustrations of some new and poorly known turrids (Gastropoda: Turridae) of the tropical northwestern Atlantic. Part 3. Genus Crassispira Swainson, 1840, subgenus Crassiclava McLean, 1971. The Nautilus 125(2): 53–62.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Clathurella guildingii
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