Crassispira incrassata

Crassispira incrassata, common name the thickened pleurotoma, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Crassispira incrassata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. incrassata
Binomial name
Crassispira incrassata
(Sowerby I, 1834)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia incrassata (Sowerby I, 1834)
  • Pleurotoma incrassata Sowerby I, 1834

ITIS considers Crassispira bottae a synonym of Crassispira incrassata [2] McLean confirmed that Pleurotoma bottae was a synonym of Crassispira incrassata [3] The radula and the morphology was studied by Kantor et al. in 1997 [4]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 30 mm and 50 mm.

The shell is acuminately pyramidal, thick, blackish. The whorls are obsoletely keeled near the suture, keel interrupted, longitudinally ribbed beneath, ribs grained and crossed with raised lines. The outer lip is thickened near the edge. The sinus is broad. The siphonal canal is short.[5]

Distribution

This marine species occurs from the Sea of Cortez, Western Mexico to Ecuador

References
  1. Crassispira incrassata (Sowerby I, 1834). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. ITIS: Crassispira incrassata
  3. McLean in Keen, 1971, Sea shells of tropical West America . Edn 2. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
  4. Kantor, Y.I., Medinskaya, A.I. & Taylor, J.D. 1997. Foregut anatomy and relationships of the Crassispirinae (Gastropoda, Conoidea). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Zoology) , 63: 55–92
  5. Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals; Reeve, Lovell, Brooks, Vincent, Reeve, Frederic, Sowerby, G. B.I (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. Sowberby I. Proc. Geol. Soc., 1833, p. 137
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • "Crassispira incrassata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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