Neodrillia cydia

Neodrillia cydia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Neodrillia
Species: N. cydia
Binomial name
Neodrillia cydia
Bartsch, 1943
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia cydia (Bartsch, 1943)
  • Drillia (Neodrillia) cydia (Bartsch, 1943)
  • Inodrillia ustickei Hayes, M. in Nowell-Usticke, G.W., 1959
  • Neodrillia antiguensis Bartsch, P., 1943
  • Neodrillia barbadensis Bartsch, P., 1943
  • Neodrillia encia Bartsch, P., 1943
  • Neodrillia jamaicensis Bartsch, P., 1943

Neodrillia cydia, common name the Cydia drillia, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 22 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Western Atlantic off North Carolina, in the Caribbean Sea off Panama and Jamaica, and off the Lesser Antilles (Antigua, Barbados, St. Thomas)

References

  1. ↑ Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
  2. ↑ Neodrillia cydia Bartsch, 1943.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 November 2011.

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