Drillia enae

Drillia enae
Drillia enae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species: D. enae
Binomial name
Drillia enae
(P. Bartsch, 1934) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Clavus (Douglassia) enae Wenz, 1943
  • Douglassia enae Bartsch, 1934 (basionym)

Drillia enae 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 17 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Caribbean Sea off Puerto Rico at depths between 73 m and 146 m.

References

  1. ^ Bartsch, P. (1934) Reports on the collections obtained by the first Johnson-Smithsonian deep-sea expedition to the Puerto Rican deep; new mollusks of the family Turritidae. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 91, 1–29, 8 pls.
  2. ^ a b Drillia enae (Bartsch, 1934).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433594 on 17 October 2011.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

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