Kylix rugifera
| Kylix rugifera | |
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| Drawing of Kylix rugifera | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Kylix |
| Species: | K. rugifera |
| Binomial name | |
| Kylix rugifera (Sowerby I, 1834) [1] | |
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Kylix rugifera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]
Description
The shell has a very dark chocolate color. The whorls are longitudinally ribbed with the ribs terminating on a nodulous periphery, above which the surface is smooth and slightly concave. The lower portion of the body whorl has revolving striae. The shell reaches a length of 22 mm. [3]
Distribution
Tjis species occurs in the demersal zone of the Pacific Ocean off the Galapagos Islands and Panama.
References
- ↑ Sowerby, G.B., I. (1834) Characters of new species of Mollusca and Conchifera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1833, 134–139.
- 1 2 Kylix rugifera (Sowerby I, 1834). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 October 2011.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 196; 1884 (described as Drillia nigerrima)
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
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