Cerodrillia nicklesi

Cerodrillia nicklesi
Cerodrillia nicklesi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species: C. nicklesi
Binomial name
Cerodrillia nicklesi
( Knudsen, 1956) [1]
Synonyms

Drillia nicklesi Knudsen, 1956

Cerodrillia nicklesi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 6 mm and 9 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Atlantic Ocean off Western Sahara.

References

  1. ^ Knudsen, J. (1952) Marine prosobranchs of tropical West Africa collected by the Alantide Expedition, 1945–46. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn, 114, 129–185, 3 pls.
  2. ^ Cerodrillia nicklesi Knudsen, 1956.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=555754  on 19 October 2011.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
  • Ardovini, R. & Cossignani, T. (2004) West African Seashells. L'Informatore Piceno, Ancona, Italy, 319 pp. NIZT682

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