Crassopleura maravignae
| Crassopleura maravignae | |
|---|---|
| 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] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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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.
Description
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.[2][3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain, Italy and Greece; in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean off the Azores, from Galicia to Morocco and Senegal, off the Canary Islands.
References
- ↑ Bivona-Bernardi And., 1838. Generi e specie di molluschi descritti dal Barone Antonio Bivona e Bernardi. Lavori postumi pubblicati dal figlio Andrea dottore in medicina con note ed aggiunte. Giornale di Scienze Lettere e Arti per la Sicilia 61: 211-227 [stated date March 1838]; 63: 319-324
- 1 2 3 Crassopleura maravignae . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 September 2011.
- ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 199; 1884 (treated as Drillia maravignae)
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213