Drillia flavidula

Drillia flavidula
Drillia flavidula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species: D. flavidula
Binomial name
Drillia flavidula
H. & A. Adams, 1853
Synonyms

Pleurotoma flavidula Lamarck, 1822

Drillia flavidula 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 Tucker (2004) this species is a variety of Clavus (Clathrodrillia) gibbosa (Born, 1778) [2]

Contents

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea.

References

  1. ^ Drillia flavidula .  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215580 on 17 October 2011.
  2. ^ Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
  • Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.


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