The length of the shell attains 16 mm, its diameter 5 mm.
The solid, elongate, subturreted shell contains 9-10 whorls. This species is remarkable for having the first two whorls large, and not smooth and glassy as in most other species in this genus, but finely ribbed and lirated. The shell has a golden color. The aperture is very small, measuring about ⅓ of the total length. The siphonal canal is very short and recurved. The columella is callous and shows tubercles at the suture. The sinus is small.[1]
crassispira, microstoma, species, snail, marine, gastropod, mollusk, family, pseudomelatomidae, scientific, classificationdomain, eukaryotakingdom, animaliaphylum, molluscaclass, gastropodasubclass, caenogastropodaorder, neogastropodasuperfamily, conoideafamil. Crassispira microstoma is a species of sea snail a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae 1 Crassispira microstomaScientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum MolluscaClass GastropodaSubclass CaenogastropodaOrder NeogastropodaSuperfamily ConoideaFamily PseudomelatomidaeGenus CrassispiraSpecies C microstomaBinomial nameCrassispira microstoma Smith E A 1882 SynonymsPleurotoma Crassispira microstoma Smith E A 1882 Contents 1 Description 2 Distribution 3 References 4 External linksDescription editThe length of the shell attains 16 mm its diameter 5 mm The solid elongate subturreted shell contains 9 10 whorls This species is remarkable for having the first two whorls large and not smooth and glassy as in most other species in this genus but finely ribbed and lirated The shell has a golden color The aperture is very small measuring about of the total length The siphonal canal is very short and recurved The columella is callous and shows tubercles at the suture The sinus is small 1 Distribution editThis marine species occurs off Sri LankaReferences edit a b Smith E A 1882 Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser 5 10 206 218External links editTucker J K 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids Mollusca Gastropoda PDF Zootaxa 682 1 1295 doi 10 11646 zootaxa 682 1 1 nbsp This Pseudomelatomidae related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Crassispira microstoma amp oldid 1205665923, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
