Crassispira apicata
# Crassispira apicata

Crassispira apicata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

## Description

The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 20 mm.

The whorls are concavely flattened above a fine keel, nodosely plaited beneath, plaits fading away towards the lower part. Transversely the shell is impressly striated. The color of the shell is chocolate brown or pale yellow, reddish at the apex.

## Distribution

This marine species occurs from Colombia to Northern Brazil; also off the Virgin Islands.; fossils have been found in Early Pliocene strata of Venezuela.

