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Pyrgospira tampaensis

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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

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

Distribution

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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

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  • "Pyrgospira tampaensis tampaensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.