Splendrillia coccinata
Appearance
Splendrillia coccinata | |
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Drawing of a shell of Splendrillia coccinata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Drilliidae |
Genus: | Splendrillia |
Species: | S. coccinata
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Binomial name | |
Splendrillia coccinata (Reeve, 1845)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Splendrillia coccinata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The shell grows to a length of 16 mm.
The whorls are smooth or obsoletely striate, concave around the upper part, plicately nodose on the periphery. The color of the shell is; pink-white, stained with rose-color between the nodules, and sometimes below them, occasionally faintly banded with rose on the lower part of the body whorl.
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Colombia, the Lesser Antilles and off Puerto Rico.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Splendrillia coccinata (Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
- Reeve, L. 1845. Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma Conchologia Iconica 1 pls. 19–33
- Smith, E.A. (1877). "Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4 (19): 488–501.
- M.M. Schepman, Full text of "Siboga expeditie" (as Drillia interpunctata)
- Melvill, J. C. 1923. Descriptions of twenty-one species of Turridae (Pleurotomidae) from various localities in the collection of Mr. E. R. Sykes Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 15 162–171, pls. 4–5.
- Usticke, G. W. Nowell. 1969. A Supplementary Listing of New Shells, to be Added to the Check List of the Marine Shells of St. Croix 32 pp., 6 pls. Author: St. Croix.
External links
[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Splendrillia coccinata.
- "Splendrillia coccinata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.