Crassispira chacei

Crassispira chacei
Crassispira chacei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Subfamily: Crassispirinae
Genus: Crassispira
Species: C. chacei
Binomial name
Crassispira chacei
Hertlein & Strong, 1951

Crassispira chacei is a species of marine gastropod in the family Turridae.[1] It has a stout, brownish shell and resembles Crassispira turricula. The shell is 30 millimetres (1.2 in) long, and 11 mm (0.43 in) wide.[2] The specific epithet chacei commemorates Fenner A. Chace, Jr..[3]

References

  1. ^ J. Tucker (2010). "Crassispira chacei Hertlein & Strong, 1951". In P. Bouchet, S. Gofas & G. Rosenberg. World Marine Mollusca database. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432645. Retrieved October 2, 2010. 
  2. ^ Angeline Myra Keen (1958). Sea shells of tropical west America: marine mollusks from Lower California to Columbia. Stanford University Press. 
  3. ^ Hans G. Hansson. "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names". Göteborgs Universitet. http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.c.html. Retrieved February 9, 2010. 


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