Crassopleura maravignae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Drilliidae |
Genus: | Crassopleura |
Species: | C. maravignae |
Binomial name | |
Crassopleura maravignae (Bivona, 1838) [1] |
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Crassopleura maravignae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]. It is the only known species within the genus Crassopleura.
Contents |
The shell of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 15 mm. The shell is yellowish- or reddish-brown, smooth and shining and sometimes banded. The five to six whorls of the teleoconch are usually somewhat round-shouldered. The fusiform shell is finely flexuously longitudinally plicate with about twenty plicae. The shell has a high spire with the body whorl less than half the total length. The dirty white aperture is ovate and has a broad and very short siphonal canal. The outer lip is usually externally varicose. The anal sinus is wide. [3] [2]
This species occurs in the Mediterrranean Sea off Spain, Italy and Greece; in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean off the Azores, from Galicia to Morocco and Senegal, off the Canary Islands.