Dallspira Explained

Dallspira is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.^[1]

It was previously considered a subgenus of Crassispira ^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Dallspira include:

• Dallspira dalli Bartsch, 1950

Species brought into synonymy:

• Dallspira abdera (W.H. Dall, 1919)
• Dallspira lowei "Watson, R.B." Bartsch, P., 1950

All these synonyms are considered by WoRMS as synonyms of Crassispira abdera (W.H.Dall, 1919)

References

• P. Bartsch (1950), New West American Turrids. Nautilus, 63 (3): 87–97, plate 6

External links

• Tucker . J.K. . 2004 . Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) . Zootaxa . 682 . 1–1295 . 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 .
• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase (2018). Dallspira Bartsch, 1950. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578140 on 2018-09-10
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50437849#page/243/mode/1up P.J. Fallon, Descriptions and illustrations of some new and poorly known turrids (Turridae) of the tropical northwestern Atlantic. Part 2. Genus Crassispira Swainson, 1840 subgenera Monilispira Bartsch and Rehder, 1939 and Dallspira Bartsch, 1950; The Nautilus 125, 2011