Neodrillia cydia

Neodrillia cydia
Three views of a shell of Neodrillia cydia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Neodrillia
Species:	N. cydia
Binomial name
Neodrillia cydia Bartsch, 1943
Synonyms[1]
Drillia antiguensis P. Bartsch, 1943 Drillia cydia (Bartsch, 1943) Drillia encia P. Bartsch, 1943 Drillia jamaicensis P. Bartsch, 1943 Drillia ustickei B. Hayes, 1959 Drillia (Neodrillia) cydia (Bartsch, 1943) Fenimorea ustickei (Nowell-Usticke, 1959) 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

• Bartsch, P. (1943) A review of some West Atlantic turritid mollusks. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural, 17, 81–122, pls. 7–15

External links

• Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
• Gastropods.com: Neodrillia cydia; retrieved: 1 November 2011
• Bisby, F.A., M.A. Ruggiero, K.L. Wilson, M. Cachuela-Palacio, S.W. Kimani, Y.R. Roskov, A. Soulier-Perkins and J. van Hertum 2005 Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2005 Annual Checklist. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.