Crassispira chacei

Crassispira chacei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. chacei
Binomial name
Crassispira chacei Hertlein & Strong, 1951

Crassispira chacei is a species of marine gastropod in the family Pseudomelatomidae.^[1]

Description

It has a stout, brownish shell and resembles Crassispira turricula. The shell is 30 millimetres (1.2 in) long, and 11 mm (0.43 in) wide.^[2] The specific epithet chacei commemorates Fenner A. Chace Jr.^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the southern part of the Sea of Cortez, Western Mexico

References

1. J. Tucker (2010). P. Bouchet, S. Gofas & G. Rosenberg (ed.). "Crassispira chacei Hertlein & Strong, 1951". World Marine Mollusca database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
2. A. Myra Keen (1958). Sea shells of tropical west America: marine mollusks from Lower California to Columbia. Stanford University Press.
3. Hans G. Hansson. "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names". Göteborgs Universitet. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 February 2010.

• Hertlein, L. G. and A. M. Strong. 1951. Eastern Pacific expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XLIII. Mollusks from the west coast of Mexico and Central America. Part X. New York Zoological Society, Zoologica 36(2): 66 120, 11 pls.

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