Crassispira chacei
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Crassispira chacei is a species
of marine gastropod in the family
Turridae
. It has a stout, brownish shell
and resembles Crassispira turricula
. The shell is 30 millimetres (1.2 in) long, and 11 mm (0.433070866141732 in) wide. The specific epithet chacei commemorates Fenner A. Chace, Jr.
.
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of marine gastropod in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Turridae
Turridae
Turridae, , is a large taxonomic family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, that vary in size from minute to moderately large. With more than 4,000 species, the Turridae is the largest mollusk family and group of marine caenogastropods...
. It has a stout, brownish shell
Gastropod shell
The gastropod shell is a shell which is part of the body of a gastropod or snail, one kind of mollusc. The gastropod shell is an external skeleton or exoskeleton, which serves not only for muscle attachment, but also for protection from predators and from mechanical damage...
and resembles Crassispira turricula
Crassispira turricula
Crassispira turricula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.-References:* Fallon P.J. Descriptions and illustrations of some new and poorly known turrids of the tropical northwestern Atlantic. Part 3. Genus Crassispira Swainson, 1840, subgenus...
. The shell is 30 millimetres (1.2 in) long, and 11 mm (0.433070866141732 in) wide. The specific epithet chacei commemorates Fenner A. Chace, Jr.
Fenner A. Chace, Jr.
Fenner Albert Chace, Jr. was an American carcinologist. He was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, and studied at Harvard University, before becoming a curator at that university's Museum of Comparative Zoology...
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