Splendrillia resplendens

Splendrillia resplendens
Image of a shell of Splendrillia resplendens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Splendrillia
Species:	S. resplendens
Binomial name
Splendrillia resplendens (Melvill, 1898)
Synonyms[1]
Drillia resplendens (Melvill, J.C., 1898) Pleurotoma (Drillia) resplendens Melvill, 1898 Turris (Inquisitor) resplendens (Melvill, J.C., 1898)

Splendrillia resplendens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

References

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

External links

• Melvill & Standen (1901) Mollusks from the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. v. 2, 1901
• Jassim A. AL-Khayat, The marine Mollusca of the Qatari waters, Arabian Gulf; Qatar Univ. Sci. J. (1997), 17(2): 479-491