Drillia alcyonea

Drillia alcyonea
Drillia alcyonea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species: D. alcyonea
Binomial name
Drillia alcyonea
Melvill & Standen, 1901 [1]

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

Contents

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Gulf of Oman.

References

  1. ^ Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. (1901) The Mollusca of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, as evidenced mainly through the collection of Mr. F. W. Townsend, 1893–1900; with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1901, 327–460
  2. ^ Drillia alcyonea Melvill & Standen, 1901.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433576 on 9 October 2011.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295

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