Drillia pyramidata
| Drillia pyramidata | |
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| Apertural view of Drillia pyramidata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Drillia |
| Species: | D. pyramidata |
| Binomial name | |
| Drillia pyramidata (Kiener, 1840) [1] | |
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Drillia pyramidata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]
Description
The shell is cerithiiform, strongly corded on the periphery, smooth above it, except a narrow granulated sutural band, below with oblique slight, ribs and revolving striae. The color of the shell is chocolate, the peripheral and sutural nodes whitish. The interior of the aperture is chocolate, with a white band. The length of the shell is 25 mm. [3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa (Senegal, Angola)
References
- ↑ Kiener, L.C. (1840a) Genre Pleurotome. (Pleurotoma, Lam.) Spécies Général et Iconographie des Coquilles Vivantes Comprenant la Collection du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Collection Lamarck, celle du Prince Masséna et les Découverts Récente des Voyageurs. Vol. 5. Rousseau, Paris, 84 pp., 27 pls. [Sherborn & Woodward, 1901a, discuss dates of publication for the various parts of Kiener’s monographs.]
- 1 2 Drillia pyramidata (Kiener, 1840). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol; VI p. 205; 1884
- Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp.
- Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
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