Crassispira chacei explained

Crassispira chacei is a species of marine gastropod in the family Pseudomelatomidae.^[1]

Description

It has a stout, brownish shell and resembles Crassispira turricula. The shell is long, and 11mm wide.^[2] The specific epithet chacei commemorates Fenner A. Chace Jr.^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the southern part of the Sea of Cortez, Western Mexico

References

• Hertlein, L. G. and A. M. Strong. 1951. Eastern Pacific expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XLIII. Mollusks from the west coast of Mexico and Central America. Part X. New York Zoological Society, Zoologica 36(2): 66 120, 11 pls.

External links

• 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. Web site: J. Tucker . 2010 . Crassispira chacei Hertlein & Strong, 1951 . P. Bouchet, S. Gofas & G. Rosenberg . World Marine Mollusca database . . October 2, 2010.
2. Book: A. Myra Keen . A. Myra Keen . 1958 . Sea shells of tropical west America: marine mollusks from Lower California to Columbia . Stanford University Press.
3. Web site: Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names . Hans G. Hansson . . February 9, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032259/http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.c.html . 4 March 2016 . dead .