Agladrillia pudica
| Agladrillia pudica | |
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| Apertural view of Agladrillia pudica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Agladrillia |
| Species: | A. pudica |
| Binomial name | |
| Agladrillia pudica (Hinds, 1843) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Agladrillia pudica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1][2]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 13 mm and 20 mm. The whorls are shortly and obliquely ribbed. The ribs are obsolete on the back of the last whorl, depressed below the sutures. The color of the shell is yellowish brown, with a deep reddish chestnut spot on the back of the body whorl. The siphonal canal is rather long compared to the other species in this genus.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean along Central America and Ecuador.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Agladrillia pudica (Hinds, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 September 2011.
- ↑ P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
- ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 189; 1884 (described as Drillia pudica)
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