Neodrillia cydia

Neodrillia cydia
	Shell of Neodrillia cydia (specimen in the MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Neodrillia
Species:	N. cydia
Binomial name
	Neodrillia cydia; Bartsch, 1943
Synonyms
	Drillia antiguensis P. Bartsch, 1943; Drillia cydia (Bartsch, 1943); Drillia encia P. Bartsch, 1943; Drillia jamaicensis P. Bartsch, 1943; Drillia ustickei B. Hayes, 1959; Drillia (Neodrillia) cydia (Bartsch, 1943); Fenimorea ustickei (Nowell-Usticke, 1959); Inodrillia ustickei Hayes, M. in Nowell-Usticke, G.W., 1959; Neodrillia antiguensis Bartsch, P., 1943; Neodrillia barbadensis Bartsch, P., 1943; Neodrillia encia Bartsch, P., 1943; Neodrillia jamaicensis Bartsch, P., 1943;

Neodrillia cydia, common name the Cydia drillia, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.^[2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 22 mm.

This species occurs in the Western Atlantic off North Carolina, in the Caribbean Sea off Panama and Jamaica, and off the Lesser Antilles (Antigua, Barbados, St. Thomas)

^ Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
^ Neodrillia cydia Bartsch, 1943. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 November 2011.

Bartsch, P. (1943) A review of some West Atlantic turritid mollusks. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural, 17, 81–122, pls. 7–15

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