Leptadrillia loria
| Leptadrillia loria | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Leptadrillia |
| Species: | L. loria |
| Binomial name | |
| Leptadrillia loria Bartsch, 1934 [1] | |
Leptadrillia loria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]
Bartsch originally misspelled this species as Leptodrillia loria. In 1973 Perrilliat renamed it as Leptadrillia loria. [3]
Description
The shell grows to a length of 6.8 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Caribbean Sea off Puerto Rico at depths between 274 m and 357 m.
References
- ↑ Bartsch, P. (1934) Reports on the collections obtained by the first Johnson-Smithsonian deep-sea expedition to the Puerto Rican deep; new mollusks of the family Turritidae. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 91, 1–29, 8 pls.
- ↑ Leptadrillia loria Bartsch, 1934. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 October 2011.
- ↑ Perrilliat, M. del C. (1973) Monografía de los moloscos del Mioceno Medio de Santa Rosa, Veracruz, México. Parte II (gasterópodos: Mitridae a Terebridae). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geología, Paleontología Mexicana, 35, 1–97, 39 pls.
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.