Cerodrillia girardi

Cerodrillia girardi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Cerodrillia
Species: C. girardi
Binomial name
Cerodrillia girardi
Lyons, 1972

Cerodrillia girardi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1] [2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 9 mm and 13 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from South Carolina to Florida, and in the Gulf of Mexico.

References

  1. Cerodrillia girardi Lyons, 1972.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 September 2011.
  2. P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.

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