Crassispira carbonaria explained

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 18 mm and 35 mm.

The shell is very solid, with a well-defined shoulder, and sulcate space above it. The longitudinal ribs are low, rounded, closer than in Crassispira bottae. The interspaces are very narrow, crossed by raised revolving lines. The shell is chocolate-colored.^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Western Africa, Gabon, Senegal and Guinea Bissau

References

• Reeve, Lovell. Conchologia Iconica: Or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals: I. Reeve, 1843.
• Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp
• Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp.
• Nolf, F., 2009. Crassispira pseudocarbonaria: a new turrid from the Gulf of Guinea. Neptunea 8(1): 1-18

External links

• Rochebrune, A.-T. de. (1883). Diagnoses de mollusques nouveaux propres à la Sénégambie. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris. (7) /: 177-182
• Lamy, E. (1911). Sur quelques mollusques de Sénégambie. Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. 17: 316-319
  • MNHN, Paris: holotype
• Tucker . J.K. . 2004 . Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) . Zootaxa . 682 . 1–1295 . 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 .

Notes and References

1. 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