Drillia echinata

Drillia echinata
Drillia echinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species: D. echinata
Binomial name
Drillia echinata
Synonyms

Clavatula echinata Lamarck, 1816

Drillia echinata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

This is a species inquerenda (needing further investigation). According to J.K. Tucker (2004) this species is a synonym of Clavus flammulatus Montfort, 1810 [2]

Contents

Description

Distribution

References

  1. ^ Drillia echinata .  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215577 on 17 Ocotber 2011.
  2. ^ Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
  • Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius

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