Spirotropis laodice

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Spirotropis laodice
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Spirotropis
Species: S. laodice
Binomial name
Spirotropis laodice
(Dall, 1919)
Synonyms[1]

Mangilia laodice Dall, 1919

Spirotropis laodice is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

In 1971 McLean put this species in the genus Spirotropis [2]

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Pacific Ocean off Ecuador.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Spirotropis laodice (Dall, 1919).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 November 2011.
  2. McLean, J.H. (1971b) Family Turridae. In Keen, A.M. (Ed.) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. Second Edition. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, pp. 686–766
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

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