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]

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. 2.0 2.1 Drillia macilenta (Melvill, 1923).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 October 2011.

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