Cerodrillia verrillii

Cerodrillia verrillii
Cerodrillia verrillii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Cerodrillia
Species: C. verrillii
Binomial name
Cerodrillia verrillii
(Dall, 1881)
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma verrillii Dall, 1881

Cerodrillia verrillii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1] [2]

This species was named by W.H. Dall after the American malacologist Addison Emory Verrill (1839-1926), the first professor of zoology at the Yale University

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Description

The shell grows to a length of 5.5 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.

References

  1. ^ a b Cerodrillia verrillii (Dall, 1881).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420297 on 6 September 2011.
  2. ^ P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017. 
  • Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

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