''Crassispira procera'' is a

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sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

, a marine

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in the

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Pseudomelatomidae Pseudomelatomidae is a family (biology), family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda (Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), Bouchet & Ro ...

.MolluscaBase (2018). Crassispira procera Kantor, Stahlschmidt, Aznar-Cormano, Bouchet & Puillandre, 2017. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=894270 on 2018-07-28

Description

The length of the shell attains 15 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Chesterfield Plateau,

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References

Kantor Y.I., Stahlschmidt P., Aznar-Cormano L., Bouchet P. & Puillandre N. (2017). Too familiar to be questioned? Revisiting the Crassispira cerithina species complex (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Pseudomelatomidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 83 (1): 43-55

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procera Procera is a hypothetical clade of amphibians that includes salamanders and caecilians but not frogs. A close relationship between salamanders and caecilians is a competing hypothesis to the more widely supported view that salamanders and frogs a ...

Gastropods described in 2017 {{Pseudomelatomidae-stub