Leptadrillia quisqualis
| Leptadrillia quisqualis | |
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| Drawing of Leptadrillia quisqualis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Leptadrillia |
| Species: | L. quisqualis |
| Binomial name | |
| Leptadrillia quisqualis (Hinds, 1843) | |
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Leptadrillia quisqualis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
Description
The shell grows to a length of 11 mm. The white shell is obtusely angulated, smooth above the angle, which is nodose by the termination of short longitudinal ribs. [2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Pacific Ocean off Nicaragua
References
- 1 2 Leptadrillia quisqualis (Hinds, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 October 2011.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 257; 1884 (described as Mangilia quisqualis)
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
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