Drillia dakarensis

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

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

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Description

The shell grows to a length of 12 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Atlantic Ocean off Western Africa (Cape Verde, Senegal,and Ghana.

References

  1. ^ Knudsen, J. (1956) Remarks on a collection of marine prosobranchs from Senegal. Bulletin de l’Institut Française d’Afrique Noire, série A, 18, 514–529, 2 pls.
  2. ^ Drillia dakarensis Knudsen, 1956.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433588 on 17 October 2011.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

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