Crassispira turricula

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

Crassispira turricula
Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira turricula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. turricula
Binomial name
Crassispira turricula
(Sowerby I, 1834)
Synonyms[1]
  • Crassispira sowerbyi Reeve, 1843
  • Crassispira (Crassiclava) turricula (G.B. Sowerby I, 1834)
  • Drillia corrugata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1834)
  • Drillia sowerbyi (Reeve, 1846)
  • Pleurotoma corrugata G.B. Sowerby I, 1834
  • Pleurotoma sowerbyi Reeve, 1843
  • Pleurotoma turricula Sowerby I, 1834

Description

The length of the shell varies between 21 mm and 45 mm.

(Original description) The brown shell is sharply pyramidal. The upper part of the whorls is tuberculated. The tubercles are arranged in a single row. The lower part of the whorls is longitudinally ribbed, the ribs decussated. The interior of the aperture is blackish purple. The siphonal canal is short.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs from Baja California, Mexico to Ecuador.

References
  1. Crassispira turricula (Sowerby I, 1834). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 July 2011.
  2. Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals; Reeve, Lovell, Brooks, Vincent, Reeve, Frederic, Sowerby, G. B. (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. Sowerby I, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1833, p. 137
  • Reeve, Conch. Syst., vol. ii. pi. 233. f. 6.
  • 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. [10 June 2011]
  • W.H. Dall (1909), Report on the collection of shells from Peru ;Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 37, pages 147-294, with Plates 20—28
  • "Crassispira turricula". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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