Pyrgospira tampaensis

Pyrgospira tampaensis, common name the Tampa turrid, is a species from sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Pyrgospira tampaensis
Shell of Pyrgospira tampaensis
Scientific classification
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

Description

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

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

• Bartsch, Paul, and Harald A. Rehder. "New turritid mollusks from Florida." Proceedings of the United States National Museum (1939)
• Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
• A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions

External links

• "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.