Crassispira quadrifasciata

Crassispira quadrifasciata
	Shell of Crassispira quadrifasciata (specimen in MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. quadrifasciata
Binomial name
	Crassispira quadrifasciata; (Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms
	Drillia quadrifasciata (Reeve, 1845); Pleurotoma quadrifasciata Reeve, 1845; Pleurotoma (Crassispira) quadrifasciata Reeve, 1845;

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 13 mm.

The shape of the shell is pyramidal. The whorls are encircled with a single keel above and below, longitudinally closely ridged in the middle. The keels are whitish, the middle of the whorls bluish brown, ridges whitish. The aperture is small. The siphonal canal is very short.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Southeastern USA; Honduras; Cuba, Jamaica, and Northern Brazil

References

^ ^a ^b Crassispira quadrifasciata (Reeve, 1845). 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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Reeve, Lovell Augustus. Conchologia Iconica: Or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals: III. Reeve, 1845.
Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 105
Espinosa J., Ortea J. & Diez García Y. (2017). Nuevas especies y nuevos registros de moluscos gasterópodos (Mollusca: Gastropoda) marinos de la región oriental de Cuba. Avicennia. 21: 59–67

External links

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 quadrifasciata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

[WoRMS-1] Crassispira quadrifasciata (Reeve, 1845). 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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[1]

[2]