Crassispira hondurasensis

Crassispira hondurasensis
Apertural view of a shell of Crassispira hondurasensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. hondurasensis
Binomial name
Crassispira hondurasensis (Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms[1]
Drillia hondurasensis (Reeve, 1846)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 8 mm.

The whorls are nodosely ribbed, with revolving striae, and a smooth space below the sutures. it is alternately banded with yellow and ash-color.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Honduras

References

1. {MolluscaBase (2018). Crassispira hondurasensis (Reeve, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532675 on 2018-07-23
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.

• Reeve, L. 1846. Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma Conchologia Iconica 1 pls. 34-40

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