Dentistyla sericifilum

Dentistyla sericifilum
Original drawing with two views of a shell of Dentistyla sericifilum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Chilodontidae
Genus: Dentistyla
Species: D. sericifilum
Binomial name
Dentistyla sericifilum
(Dall, 1889)
Synonyms

Calliostoma (Dentistyla) sericifilum Dall, 1889 (original combination)

Dentistyla sericifilum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chilodontidae.[1]

Description

The height of the shell attains 9 mm. The shell is delicately but sharply reticulate all over. The two peripheral spirals are minutely spinose at the intersections. The columellar tooth is present but not strong. The shell is thinner and more nacreous than the typical form, and with the radiating and spiral sculpture not differing so much in strength.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off the Grenadines and Barbados

References

External links

External identifiers for Dentistyla sericifilum
Encyclopedia of Life 19661661
WoRMS 532725
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