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Crassispira
Sign in to saveCrassispira is a genus of small predatory sea snails with narrow, high-spired shells, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae. They first appeared in the fossil record approximately 48.6 million years ago during the Eocene epoch, and still exist in the present day.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyPseudomelatomidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,209
- With media
- 90
- Family
- Pseudomelatomidae
- Collections
- LACM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, PRI, SDNHM, UF
- Recorded in
- United States, South Africa, Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pseudomelatomidae
- Image
- Crassispira incrassata 001.jpg
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- Commons category
- Crassispira
- taxon name
- Crassispira
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Crassispira
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Crassispira is a genus of small predatory sea snails with narrow, high-spired shells, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae. They first appeared in the fossil record approximately 48.6 million years ago during the Eocene epoch, and still exist in the present day.
==Taxonomy== The small blackish "Drillias" so common in Panamic waters, of which Pleurotoma bottae Valenciennes is the type, were brought under the name of Crassispira Swainson, 1840 by W.H. Dall in 1918.
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