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Crassispira
''Crassispira'' is a genus of small predatory sea snails with narrow, high-spired shells, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.MolluscaBase (2018). Crassispira Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224467 on 2018-04-21 Taxonomy The small blackish Drillias so common in Panamic waters, of which ''Pleurotoma bottae'' Valenciennes is the type, were brought under the name of ''Crassispira'' Swainson, 1840 by W.H. Dall in 1918. Description Most species in this genus have a tall spire and a truncated anterior canal. The ribs are overridden by spirals, forming beads or nodules. Under the subsutural keel is the sinus area rather smooth. The small shell is subclavate and tuberculated. The spire is thick and, lengthened. The outer lip shows a slight sinus above and is thickened internally at the top and the bottom. The top of the inner lip has a thick pad. The basal channel is slight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crassispira Apicata
''Crassispira apicata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae. Description The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 20 mm. The whorls are concavely flattened above a fine keel, nodosely plaited beneath, plaits fading away towards the lower part. Transversely the shell is impressly striated. The color of the shell is chocolate brown or pale yellow, reddish at the apex. Distribution This marine species occurs from |
Crassispira Angulosa
''Crassispira angulosa'' is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. Subspecies: † ''Crassispira angulosa acyensis'' (A.E.M. Cossmann, 1889) (synonym: ''Drillia (Crassispira) angulosa acyensis'' Cossmann, 1889) Description The length of the shell attains 6.8 mm. Distribution Fossils have been found in Eocene strata in the Paris Basin The Paris Basin is one of the major geological regions of France. It developed since the Triassic over remnant uplands of the Variscan orogeny (Hercynian orogeny). The sedimentary basin, no longer a single drainage basin, is a large sag in th ..., France. References * Cossmann (M.), 1896 – Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée (2ème livraison), p. 1–179 * Cossmann (M.), 1902 – Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris (3ème appendice). Annales de la Société royale Malacologique de Belgique, t. 36, p.&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crassispira Angelettii
''Crassispira angelettii'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae. Description The length of the shell attains 9 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs off Southern Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ... References * Bozzetti, L., 2008. - Tre nuove specie appartenenti al genere Crassispira Swainson, 1840 (Gastropoda: Hypsogastropoda: Turridae) dal Madagascar meridionale. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 58: 16-18 External links * angelettii Gastropods described in 2008 {{Pseudomelatomidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crassispira Abdera
''Crassispira abdera'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae. Description The length of the shell attains 15 mm, its diameter 6 mm. (Original description) The small shell is acute and thin. It has a dull waxen color with a darker blotch behind the aperture and a dark brown protoconch consisting of a smooth and polished whorls. The nine subsequent whorls show a spiral sculpture of obscure fine threads. On the body whorl in addition there is a more prominent duplex thread in front of the suture on the base are four other widely separated threads only prominent as nodules at their intersection with the line of the ribs. There are six or more finer threads on the siphonal canal. The axial sculpture consists of (on the body whorl 7 or 8) ribs which appear at the periphery as conspicuous nodules and become obsolete on the base except at the intersections above mentioned. There are also fine, sharp, close, arcuate incremental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crassispira Annella
''Crassispira annella'' is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. Description The length of the shell attains 8 mm; its diameter 3 mm. Distribution Fossils have been found in Pliocene strata of the Bowden Formation of Jamaica; also on Saint Thomas; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma References * W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results. Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies. Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies * W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299–452 * A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crassispira Aegis
''Crassispira aegis'' is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. Description The length of the shell attains 45.8 mm; its diameter 13.6 mm. Distribution Fossils have been found in Pliocene strata of the Bowden Formation of Jamaica; also on Saint Thomas; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma References * W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results. Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies. Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies * W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299–452 External links Fossilworks : ''Crassispira aegis'' aegis The aegis ( ; grc, αἰγίς ''aigís''), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crassispira Adana
''Crassispira adana'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae. Description The length of the shell attains 12 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Manzanillo, Mexico-to Panama References External links * * adana Adana (; ; ) is a major city in southern Turkey. It is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the Mediterranean Sea. The administrative seat of Adana Province, Adana province, it has a population of 2.26 million. Adana lies in the heart ... Gastropods described in 1950 {{Pseudomelatomidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crassispira Aster
''Crassispira aster'' is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.MolluscaBase (2018). Crassispira aster Lozouet, 2015 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=867926 on 2018-08-22 Description The length of the shell attains 7.5 mm. Distribution Fossils have been found in Oligocene and lower Miocene strata in Aquitaine, France References * Lozouet P. (2015). Nouvelles espèces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l'Oligocène et du Miocène inférieur d'Aquitaine (Sud-Ouest de la France). Partie 5. Cossmanniana. 17: 15–84. page(s): 40, pl. 18 figs 9-12 aster Aster or ASTER may refer to: Biology * ''Aster'' (genus), a genus of flowering plants ** List of ''Aster'' synonyms, other genera formerly included in ''Aster'' and still called asters in English * Aster (cell biology), a cellular structure shap ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crassispira Armoricensis
''Crassispira armoricensis'' is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. Description Distribution Fossils have been found in Eocene The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ... strata in Loire-Atlantique, France References * Cossmann (M.), 1896 Mollusques éocèniques de la Loire-Inférieure. Tome 1, fascicule 2. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest de la France, t. 6, vol. 4, p. 180-246 armoricensis Gastropods described in 1896 {{paleo-gastropod-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crassispira Appressa
''Crassispira appressa'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae. Description The length of the shell varies between 7.5 mm and 12 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs off Cabo San Lucas Cabo San Lucas (, "Saint Luke Cape"), or simply just Cabo, is a resort city at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula, in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. As at the 2020 Census, the population of the city was 202,694 inhabitan ..., Baja California, Mexico References * Carpenter. Ann. Mag. N. H., 1864, xiv, p. 46 Carpenter P. (1872) The Mollusks of Western North America, Smithsonian Institution, Washington External links * * appressa Gastropods described in 1864 Taxa named by Philip Pearsall Carpenter {{Pseudomelatomidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crassispira Asthenes
''Crassispira asthenes'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae. Description Distribution This marine species occurs off the Lesser Antilles The Lesser Antilles ( es, link=no, Antillas Menores; french: link=no, Petites Antilles; pap, Antias Menor; nl, Kleine Antillen) are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. Most of them are part of a long, partially volcanic island arc betwe .... References * Faber M.J. 2007. Marine gastropods from the ABC Islands and other localities. 24. The subfamily Crassispirinae, including the Strictispirinae, with the description of Crassispira asthenes n.sp. Miscellanea Malacologica, 2(6): 119-129 asthenes Gastropods described in 2007 {{Pseudomelatomidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crassispira Abundans
''Crassispira abundans'' is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. Description Distribution Fossils have been found in Oligocene strata in Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ..., USA: age range: 33.9 to 28.4 Ma References * J. A. Gardner. 1948. Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199(B):179-310 External links Fossilworks : ''Crassispira abundans'' abundans Gastropods described in 1840 {{Pseudomelatomidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |