Crassispira

Crassispira
A shell of Crassispira incrassata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae[1]
Genus: Crassispira
Swainson, 1840[2]

Crassispira is a genus of small predatory sea snails with narrow, high-spired shells, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

Species

Species within the genus Crassispira are numerous. According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), they include:[3]

Species brought into synonymy 

External links

References

  1. P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  2. Swainson (1840). Treat. Malacol. 152, 313.
  3. WoRMS : Crassispira.
  4. Morassi, Mauro & Antonio Bonfitto. (2013). "Four new African turriform gastropods (Mollusca: Conoidea)." Zootaxa 3710 (3): 271-280.


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