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]

• Crassispira abdera (Dall, 1919)
• Crassispira adana (Bartsch, 1950)
• Crassispira aequatorialis Thiele, 1925
• Crassispira affinis (Reeve, 1846)
• Crassispira angelettii Bozzetti, 2008
• Crassispira ansonae Wells, 1990
• Crassispira apicata (Reeve, 1845)
• Crassispira appressa (Carpenter, 1864)
• Crassispira asthenes Faber, 2007
• Crassispira ballenaensis Hertlein & Strong, 1951
• Crassispira bernardi Fernandes et al., 1995
• Crassispira bifurca (Smith E. A., 1888)
• Crassispira bittium Dall, 1924
• Crassispira blanquilla Fallon, 2011
• Crassispira bottae (Valenciennes in Kiener, 1840)
• Crassispira bridgesi Dall, 1919
• Crassispira brujae Hertlein & Strong, 1951
• Crassispira callosa (Kiener, 1840)
• Crassispira cana Fallon, 2011
• Crassispira carbonaria (Reeve, 1843)
• Crassispira cerithoidea (Carpenter, 1857)
• Crassispira chacei Hertlein & Strong, 1951
• Crassispira chazaliei (Dautzenberg, 1900)
• Crassispira coelata (Hinds, 1843)
• Crassispira consociata (E.A. Smith, 1877)
• Crassispira coracina McLean & Poorman, 1971
• Crassispira cortezi Shasky & Campbell, 1964
• Crassispira cubana (Melvill, 1923)
• Crassispira currani McLean & Poorman, 1971
• Crassispira discors (Sowerby I, 1834)
• Crassispira drangai Schwengel, 1951
• Crassispira dysoni (Reeve, 1846)
• Crassispira elatior (C. B. Adams, 1845)
• Crassispira epicasta Dall, 1919
• Crassispira erigone Dall, 1919
• Crassispira eurynome Dall, 1919
• Crassispira flavocarinata (Smith E. A., 1882)
• Crassispira flavonodulosa (Smith E. A., 1879)
• Crassispira flucki (Brown & Pilsbry, 1913)
• Crassispira funebralis Fernandes et al., 1995
• Crassispira fuscescens (Reeve, 1843)
• Crassispira fuscobrevis Rolán, Ryall & Horro, 2007
• Crassispira fuscocincta (C. B. Adams, 1850)
• Crassispira greeleyi (Dall, 1901)
• Crassispira harfordiana (Reeve, 1843)
• Crassispira harpularia (Desmoulins, 1842)
• Crassispira hosoi (Okutani, 1964)
• Crassispira incrassata (Sowerby I, 1834)
• Crassispira integra Thiele, 1925
• Crassispira laevisulcata Von Maltzan, 1883
• Crassispira latizonata (Smith E. A., 1882)
• Crassispira lavanonoensis Bozzetti, 2008
• Crassispira luctuosa (d'Orbigny, 1847)
• Crassispira mackintoshi Fallon, 2011
• Crassispira martiae McLean & Poorman, 1971
• Crassispira masinoi Fallon, 2011
• Crassispira maura (Sowerby I, 1834)
• Crassispira mayaguanaensis Fallon, 2011
• Crassispira melonesiana (Dall & Simpson, 1901)
• Crassispira mennoi Jong & Coomans, 1988
• Crassispira monilecosta Fernandes et al., 1995
• Crassispira monilifera (Carpenter, 1857)
• Crassispira monilis (Bartsch & Rehder, 1939)
• Crassispira montereyensis (Stearns, 1871)
• Crassispira multicostata Fallon, 2011
• Crassispira nigerrima (Sowerby I, 1834)
• Crassispira nigrescens (C. B. Adams, 1845)
• Crassispira oliva Fernandes et al., 1995
• Crassispira pellisphocae (Reeve, 1845)
• Crassispira phasma Schwengel, 1940
• Crassispira pini Fernandes et al., 1995
• Crassispira pluto Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932
• Crassispira premorra (Dall, 1889)
• Crassispira pseudocarbonaria Nolf, 2009
• Crassispira pulchrepunctata Stahlschmidt & Bozzetti, 2007
• Crassispira quadrifasciata (Reeve, 1845)
• Crassispira rhythmica Melvill, 1927
• Crassispira rubidofusca (Schepman, 1913)
• Crassispira rudis (Sowerby I, 1834)
• Crassispira rugitecta (Dall, 1918)
• Crassispira rustica (Sowerby I, 1834)
• Crassispira sacerdotalis Rolan & Fernandes, 1992
• Crassispira safagaensis Kilburn & Dekker, 2008
• Crassispira sandrogorii Ryall, Horro & Rolán, 2009
• Crassispira sanibelensis Bartsch & Rehder, 1939
• Crassispira sinensis (Hinds, 1843)
• Crassispira soamanitraensis Bozzetti, 2008
• Crassispira somalica Morassi & Bonfitto, 2013^[4]
• Crassispira takeokensis (Otuka, 1949)
• Crassispira tasconium (Melvill & Standen, 1901)
• Crassispira tepocana Dall, 1919
• Crassispira trencarti Ryall, Horro & Rolán, 2009
• Crassispira trimariana Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932
• Crassispira tuckerana Bonfitto & Morassi, 2011
• Crassispira turricula (Sowerby I, 1834)
• Crassispira unicolor (Sowerby I, 1834)
• Crassispira verbernei Jong & Coomans, 1988
• Crassispira vexillum (Reeve, 1845)
• Crassispira xanti Hertlein & Strong, 1951

Species brought into synonymy 

• Crassispira adamsi De Jong & Coomans, 1988: synonym of Crassispira elatior (C. B. Adams, 1845)
• Crassispira albonodulosa (E. A. Smith, 1904): synonym of Psittacodrillia albonodulosa (E. A. Smith, 1904)
• Crassispira amathea Dall, 1919: synonym of Pilsbryspira amathea (Dall, 1919)
• Crassispira arsinoe Dall, 1919: synonym of Pilsbryspira arsinoe (Dall, 1919)
• Crassispira aureonodosa Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932: synonym of Pilsbryspira aureonodosa (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932)
• Crassispira bacchia Dall, 1919: synonym of Pilsbryspira bacchia (Dall, 1919)
• Crassispira bairstowi (Sowerby III, 1886): synonym of Psittacodrillia bairstowi (Sowerby III, 1886)
• Crassispira bandata (Nowell-Usticke, 1971): synonym of Crassispira latizonata (Smith E. A., 1882)
• Crassispira candace Dall, 1919: synonym of Pyrgospira candace (Dall, 1919)
• Crassispira diversa (E. A. Smith, 1882): synonym of Psittacodrillia diversa (E. A. Smith, 1882)
• Crassispira ericana Hertlein & Strong, 1951: synonym of Strictispira ericana (Hertlein & Strong, 1951)
• Crassispira hermanita Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932: synonym of Maesiella hermanita (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932)
• Crassispira jungi Macsotay & Campos Villarroel, 2001: synonym of Hindsiclava jungi (Macsotay & Campos Villarroel, 2001)
• Crassispira kandai Kuroda, 1950: synonym of Pilsbryspira kandai (Kuroda, 1950)
• Crassispira layardi (Sowerby III, 1897): synonym of Crassiclava layardi (Sowerby III, 1897)
• Crassispira loxospira Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932: synonym of Pilsbryspira loxospira (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932)
• Crassispira nymphia Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932: synonym of Pilsbryspira nymphia (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932)
• *Crassispira ochsneri (Hertlein & Strong, 1949: synonym of Cleospira ochsneri (Hertlein & Strong, 1949)
• Crassispira rufovaricosa Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971: synonym of Inquisitor rufovaricosa (Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971)
• Crassispira tampaensis Bartsch & Rehder, 1939: synonym of Pyrgospira tampaensis (Bartsch & Rehder, 1939)
• Crassispira tuckeri Bonfitto & Morassi, 2004: synonym of Crassispira tuckerana Bonfitto & Morassi, 2011
• Crassispira walteri Smith M., 1946: synonym of Clathrodrillia walteri (Smith M., 1946)

External links

• W.H. Dall (1918) Notes on the nomenclature of the mollusks of the family Turritidae; Proceedings of The United States National Museum v. 54 (1918); p. 317

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.