Pyrgospira tampaensis
Shell of Pyrgospira tampaensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Pyrgospira
Species:
P. tampaensis
Binomial name
Pyrgospira tampaensis
(Bartsch & Rehder, 1939)
Synonyms[1]
  • Crassispira (Crassispirella) tampaensis Bartsch & Rehder, 1939
  • Crassispira tampaensis bartschi L. Perry, 1940

Pyrgospira tampaensis, common name the Tampa turrid, is a species of small to medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Description

The size of the shell of this species varies between 10 mm and 32 mm.

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Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and in the Gulf of Mexico; in the Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina, USA, to Northern Brasil; fossils have been found in Quaternary strata in Florida, USA, age range: 2.588 to 0.012 Ma.

References

  1. ^ a b Pyrgospira tampaensis (Bartsch & Rehder, 1939). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.

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