Crassopleura maravignae

Crassopleura maravignae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Crassopleura
Species:	C. maravignae
Binomial name
Crassopleura maravignae (Bivona, 1838) [1]
Synonyms[2]
Clavus maravignae (Bivona Ant. in Bivona And., 1838) Crassopleura incrassata (Dujardin, 1837) † Drillia incrassata miominor (f) Sacco, F., 1904 Drillia incrassata rhodanica (f) Fontannes, F., 1879 Drillia maravignae Bivona, 1838 Fusus semicostatus Cantraine, 1835 Pleurotoma costulata Cantraine, F.J., 1835 Pleurotoma costulatum Cantraine, F.J., 1835 Pleurotoma crebicostata Hinds Pleurotoma elegans Scacchi, A., 1835 Pleurotoma incisa Reeve, L.A., 1843 Pleurotoma incrassata Dujardin, F., 1837 Pleurotoma maravignae Bivona Ant. in Bivona And., 1838 (basionym)

Crassopleura maravignae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.^[2] It is the only known species within the genus Crassopleura.

Description

The shell of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 15 mm. The shell is yellowish- or reddish-brown, smooth and shining and sometimes banded. The five to six whorls of the teleoconch are usually somewhat round-shouldered. The fusiform shell is finely flexuously longitudinally plicate with about twenty plicae. The shell has a high spire with the body whorl less than half the total length. The dirty white aperture is ovate and has a broad and very short siphonal canal. The outer lip is usually externally varicose. The anal sinus is wide.^[2][3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain, Italy and Greece; in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean off the Azores, from Galicia to Morocco and Senegal, off the Canary Islands.

References

1. Bivona-Bernardi And., 1838. Generi e specie di molluschi descritti dal Barone Antonio Bivona e Bernardi. Lavori postumi pubblicati dal figlio Andrea dottore in medicina con note ed aggiunte. Giornale di Scienze Lettere e Arti per la Sicilia 61: 211-227 [stated date March 1838]; 63: 319-324
2. Crassopleura maravignae .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 September 2011.
3. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 199; 1884 (treated as Drillia maravignae)

• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213

External links

• Gastropods.com: Crassopleura maravignae; retrieved: 30 September 2011