Drillia macilenta

Drillia macilenta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species: D. macilenta
Binomial name
Drillia macilenta
(Melvill J.C., 1923) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Clionella platysoma (E. A. Smith, 1877)
  • Surcula macilenta Melvill, 1923

Drillia macilenta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]

Contents

Description

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the demersal zone off South Africa.

References

  1. ^ Melvill, J.C. (1923a) 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.
  2. ^ a b Drillia macilenta (Melvill, 1923).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433605 on 19 October 2011.