Drillia amblytera
Drillia amblytera | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Drilliidae |
Genus: | Drillia |
Species: | D. amblytera |
Binomial name | |
Drillia amblytera (Bush, 1893) [1] | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Drillia amblytera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and has been found off Charleston, South Carolina, off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina at depths between 136 m and 258m.
References
- ↑ Bush, K.J. (1893) Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877–1878), and in the Caribbean Sea (1879–80), and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States (1880), by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer “Blake”, Lieut. Commander C. D. Sigsbee, U. S. N., and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., commanding. XXXIV. Report on the Mollusca dredged by the “Blake” in 1880, including descriptions of several new species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 23, 199–244.
- ↑ Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
- ↑ Drillia amblytera (Bush, 1893). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 October 2011.
- Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp