Crassispira sinensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.
Description The shell contains numerous whorls, convex, slightly angulated and noduled on the periphery. They are flexuously longitudinally ribbed below and cancellated by raised revolving lines. The suture is bordered by an obliquely nodulous band. The color of the shell is yellowish or flesh-brown, sometimes narrowly dark-banded at the suture and base. The interior is yellowish.G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
Distribution This marine species occurs in the South China Sea and off New Guinea.
References
Winckworth, R. (1940). A systematic list of the Investigator Mollusca. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 24: 19–29.
External links Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295