Crassispira scala

Crassispira scala
Shells of Crassispira scala (museum specimens at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. scala
Binomial name
Crassispira scala
Kantor, Stahlschmidt, Aznar-Cormano, Bouchet & Puillandre, 2017

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 15 mm and 30 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Micronesia

References

  1. ^ a b Kantor Y.I., Stahlschmidt P., Aznar-Cormano L., Bouchet P. & Puillandre N. (2017). Too familiar to be questioned? Revisiting the Crassispira cerithina species complex (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Pseudomelatomidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 83 (1): 43-55. page(s): 47, figs 3C-D, 4-5
  • Gastropods.com: Crassispira scala
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
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