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Crassispira unicolor Sowerby, 1834

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Pseudomelatomidae »  genus Crassispira

Scientific synonyms

Crassispira tangolaensis J. G. Hertlein & A. M. Strong, 1951

Images

Crassispira unicolor

Author: Tryon & Pilsbry, Manual of Conchologie S1, Vol 6

Crassispira unicolor

Author: Hertlein, L.G. & Strong, A.M.

Taxon in country check-lists*

North America: Mexico, Panama

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Description

Crassispira tangolaensis: Shell small, biconic, uniformly dark, the extreme tip broken, remaining whorls 8, strongly sculptured; axial sculpture of 12 strong, somewhat retractive ribs, fading out on the base, very faint over the narrow, depressed fasciole but rising to rounded tubercles at the suture; spiral sculpture of very fine, closely spaced threads over the entire surface, on the base every third or fourth thread the strongest; aperture narrow, outer lip thickened, with a small, rounded anal sulcus near the suture; inner lip simple, canal very short, hardly differentiated. The type measures: length, 14 mm.; maximum diameter, 5.4 mm.
Hertlein, L.G. & Strong, A.M., 1951; Mollusks from the W. Coast of Mexico & Central America. Part 10
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Crassispira unicolor Sowerby, 1834]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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