Drillia ghyooti

Drillia ghyooti
Drillia ghyooti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species: D. ghyooti
Binomial name
Drillia ghyooti
Nolf, 2008 [1]

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

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Description

The shell of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 17 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Ivory Coast and São Tomé and Principe.

References

  1. ^ A new turrid species from West Africa: Drillia ghyooti (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Drilliidae), pp. 13-19, plates I-IV by F. Nolf. Neptunea vol. 7/4; November 2008
  2. ^ Drillia ghyooti Nolf, 2008.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433595 on 5 April 2010.

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