Crassispira
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Crassispira is a genus of small predatory sea snails with narrow, high-spired shells, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[2] They first appeared in the fossil record approximately 48.6 million years ago during the Eocene epoch, and still exist in the present day.[3]
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Crassispira | |
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A shell of Crassispira incrassata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Crassispira Swainson, 1840[1] |
Type species | |
Pleurotoma bottae Valenciennes in Kiener, 1839 | |
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