Crassispira cubana

Crassispira cubana
Original image of a shell of Crassispira cubana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. cubana
Binomial name
Crassispira cubana (Melvill, 1923)
Synonyms[1]
Crassispira (Crassispirella) mesoleuca Rehder, 1943 Drillia cubana Melvill, 1923

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 27 mm.

The dark sienna-brown shell is elegantly fusiform. It contains 8 whorls (the protoconch is imperfect in the specimens). The remainder are very closely and finely longitudinally costate, about sixteen on the body whorl, slightly oblique, warm-brown in colour, with a spiral white band just below the sutures. The ribs are particularly numerous and fine in character, not in the least incrassate. The surface is crossed with uniform spiral raised lines. These extend very nearly to the base of the body whorl. The aperture is narrow. The outer lip is rather incrassate. The anal sinus is well expressed, just below the suture. The columellar margin is straight. The siphonal canal is very short.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Cuba, in the Gulf of Mexico and off the Lesser Antilles.
Beached shell are known from Palm Beach county, Florida.

References

1. Crassispira cubana (Melvill, 1923). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
2. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 14–15 (1923) (described as Drillia cubana )

External links

• Rosenberg G., Moretzsohn F. & García E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295
• "Crassispira cubana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.