Crassispira tuckerana

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

Crassispira tuckerana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. tuckerana
Binomial name
Crassispira tuckerana
Bonfitto & Morassi, 2004
Synonyms[1]
  • Crassispira (Crassispirella) tuckerana Bonfitto & Morassi, 2011
  • Crassispira tuckeri Bonfitto & Morassi, 2004 (Invalid: junior homonym of Crassispira tuckeri Le Renard, 1994; Crassispira tuckerana is a replacement name)

Distribution

This species is found in the Indian Ocean off Somalia.

References
  1. Crassispira tuckerana Bonfitto & Morassi, 2004. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 April 2011.
  • Bonfitto A. & Morassi M. 2004. Crassispira (Crassispirella) tuckeri, new species from Somalia, eastern Africa. The Veliger 47(2) : 157-160
  • Bonfitto A. & Morassi M. (2011) Crassispira (Crassispirella) tuckerana, a replacement name for Crassispira (Crassispirella) tuckeri Bonfitto & Morassi, 2004 (Gastropoda: Turridae: Crassispirinae) not Crassispira tuckeri Le Renard, 1994. Zootaxa 2767: 57-58
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.


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