African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Crassispira Swainson, 1840

AphiaID

224467 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224467)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Pseudomelatomidae J. P. E. Morrison, 1966

Original name

Crassispira Swainson, 1840

Direct children (9)

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Species Crassispira callosa (Kiener, 1839)
Species Crassispira carbonaria (Reeve, 1843)
Species Crassispira cerithina (Anton, 1838)
Species Crassispira consociata (E. A. Smith, 1877)
Species Crassispira tuckerana Bonfitto & Morassi, 2011
Species Crassispira turricula (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
Species Crassispira aesopus (Schepman, 1913) accepted as Inquisitor aesopus (Schepman, 1913)
Species Crassispira hottentota (E. A. Smith, 1882) accepted as Tylotiella hottentota (E. A. Smith, 1882) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Crassispira tuckeri Bonfitto & Morassi, 2004 accepted as Crassispira tuckerana Bonfitto & Morassi, 2011 (Invalid: junior homonym of Crassispira tuckeri Le Renard, 1994; Crassispira tuckerana is a replacement name)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 153, 313 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Crassispira Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224467 on 2026-02-19

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Crassispira Swainson, 1840. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224467 on 2026-02-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-03-15 13:55:38Z

created

Nsiangango, Silvi Edith

2009-12-02 08:40:23Z

changed

Tucker, John

2010-01-21 11:31:04Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2011-02-18 21:06:30Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2011-08-03 20:35:42Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2011-08-15 19:01:26Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-01-20 08:11:48Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2020-01-06 02:14:58Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

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original description Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 153, 313 [details]

basis of record Iljina L. B. (1993). Определитель морских средне-миоценовых гастропод Юго-Западной Евразии [= Handbook for identification of the marine Middle Miocene gastropods of southwestern Eurasia]. <em>Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta RAS.</em> 255: 1-151., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/bookfiles/geokniga-iljina1993opredmorsksrednemiotsengastropodjuvevraziipin255.djvu
page(s): 102 [details]

additional source Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> 77(3): 273-308., available online at http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/77/3/273.full.pdf [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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