Crassispira terebra
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| Crassispira terebra | |
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| Shells of Crassispira terebra (specimens at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Crassispira |
| Species: | C. terebra |
| Binomial name | |
| Crassispira terebra (de Basterot, 1825) | |
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Crassispira terebra is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
The length of the shell attains 28 mm. William Swainson, an English malacologist, published a book in 1840 in which he describes this genus of molluscs as having a "shell tuberculated", being "club-shaped" and its "aperture widest in the middle."[2]
