Splendrillia laeta
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| Splendrillia laeta | |
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| Splendrillia laeta | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Splendrillia |
| Species: | S. laeta |
| Binomial name | |
| Splendrillia laeta (Hinds, 1843) [1] | |
| Synonyms[2][3] | |
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Splendrillia laeta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]
This species is also mentioned as Clavus laetus.
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 8 mm and 20 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the tropical Indo-Pacific along New Guinea, New Caledonia, the Strait of Macassar, Indonesia, the Solomons and the Philippines
References
- ↑ Hinds. Proc. Zool. Soc., 1843, p. 41
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Clavus laeta (Hinds, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 April 2012.
- ↑ Sealifebase: Clavus fusconitens
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
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