Crassispira sinensis

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Species of gastropod

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::summary Species of gastropod ::

| taxon =Crassispira sinensis | image = Crassispira sinensis 001.jpg | image_caption = Shell of Crassispira sinensis (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | authority =(Hinds, 1843) | synonyms_ref = | synonyms =

  • Brachytoma sinensis (Hinds, 1843)
  • Clavatula sinensis Hinds, 1843
  • Drillia sinensis (Hinds, 1843)
  • Inquisitor sinensis (Hinds, 1843) | display_parents = 3

Crassispira sinensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

Description

The shell contains numerous whorls, convex, slightly angulated and noduled on the periphery. They are flexuously longitudinally ribbed below and cancellated by raised revolving lines. The suture is bordered by an obliquely nodulous band. The color of the shell is yellowish or flesh-brown, sometimes narrowly dark-banded at the suture and base. The interior is yellowish.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the South China Sea and off New Guinea.

References

  • Winckworth, R. (1940). A systematic list of the Investigator Mollusca. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 24: 19–29.

References

  1. {{WRMS species. 433431. ''Crassispira sinensis'' (Hinds, 1843). 4 April 2010
  2. [https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences]

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