Drillia caffra

Drillia caffra
Drillia caffra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Drillia
Species:	D. caffra
Binomial name
Drillia caffra (Smith E. A., 1882) [1]
Synonyms[2]
Austrodrillia caffra Hedley, 1922 Drillia lara Bartsch, P., 1915 Drillia nereia Turton, W.H., 1932 Drillia nivosa Smith, E.A., 1904 Drillia praetermissa E.A. Smith, 1904 Pleurotoma caffra Smith E. A., 1882

Drillia caffra is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.^[2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 15 mm and 20 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Indian Ocean off the Eastern Cape, Jeffrey's Bay and North Transkei, South Africa.

References

1. Smith, E.A. (1882) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5, 10, 206–218.
2. Drillia caffra (Smith E. A., 1882).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.

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

External links

• Gastropods.com : Drillia caffra; retrieved: 10 October 2011