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Crassispira maura

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Crassispira maura
Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira maura
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. maura
Binomial name
Crassispira maura
(Sowerby I, 1834)
Synonyms[1]
  • Crassispira inaequistriata Li, 1930
  • Crassispira nigricans Dall, 1919
  • Crassispira perla Smith, 1947
  • Knefastia nigricans (Dall, W.H., 1919)
  • Pleurotoma maura Sowerby I, 1834 (original combination)

Crassispira maura, common name the dark-coloured pleurotoma, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Pleurotoma maura Kiener L.C., 1840 is a synonym of Pilsbryspira aterrima (Sowerby, G.B. I, 1834)

Description

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The length of the shell varies between 45 mm and 85 mm.

The turreted shell is acuminated and blackish brown. The whorls are tuberculated in the middle, dotted round the lower part, whilst the upper part exhibits a depression from the rilling up of the sinus. The siphonal canal is recurved.[2]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs from Mazatlan, Mexico to Ecuador

References

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  • G.B. Sowberby I. Proc. Geol. Soc., 1833, p. 137
  • Reeve, Conch. Syst., vol. ii. pi. 133. f. 4.
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  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • "Crassispira maura". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.