Crassispira fuscocincta
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| Crassispira fuscocincta | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Crassispira |
| Species: | C. fuscocincta |
| Binomial name | |
| Crassispira fuscocincta (C. B. Adams, 1850) | |
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Crassispira fuscocincta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 10.5 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.
(Original description) The shell has an elevate pyramidal shape. The shell contains 7-8 whorls, not convex and with the suture not impressed. The color of the shell pale is yellowish white with a sutural line of brown, anteriorly wax yellow with revolving lines of yellowish white, with a spiral series of large smooth well-rounded nodules on slightly elevated wide ridges on the lower half of the whorls; anteriorly with a few spiral raised lines. The apex is acute. The spire shows a rectilineal outline. The aperture is rather wide. The siphonal canal is very short.[2]