Crassispira harpularia

Crassispira harpularia
	Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira harpularia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. harpularia
Binomial name
	Crassispira harpularia; ((Desmoulins, 1842)
Synonyms
	Crassispira harpula Menke, 1853; Drillia harpularia Angas, 1865; Melatomia harpularia (Desmoulins, 1842); Pleurotoma harpula Kiener, L.C., 1840; Pleurotoma harpularia Desmoulins, 1842; Pleurotoma (Crassispira) harpularia Desmoulins, 1842;

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

Description

The shell has a chestnut- or chocolate color. The spire is more slenderly elongated. The siphonal canal is 'longer and more compressed than in Clathrodrillia solida (C. B. Adams, 1850). The revolving lines do not form granules on the ribs.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.

References

^ ^a ^b Crassispira harpularia (Desmoulins, 1842). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences

Des Moulins, Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, xii., 1842, p. 162.
Angas, G.F. 1865. On the marine molluscan fauna of the Province of South Australia, with a list of all the species known up to the present time, together with remarks on their habitats and distribution, etc. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 155-"180"
Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
Ludbrook, N.H. 1978. Quaternary molluscs of the western part of the Eucla Basin. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Western Australia 125: 1-286
Wells, F.E. 1990. Revision of the recent Australian Turridae referred to the genera Splendrillia and Austrodrillia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 11: 73-117
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.

External links

[WoRMS-1] Crassispira harpularia (Desmoulins, 1842). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.

[2] G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences

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