Drillia lignaria

Drillia lignaria
Drillia lignaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species: D. lignaria
Binomial name
Drillia lignaria
(G.B. Sowerby III, 1903) [1]
Synonyms[2]

Pleurotoma lignaria Sowerby III, 1903

Drillia lignaria 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 22 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone off the west coast of the Cape Province, South Africa.

References

  1. ^ Sowerby, G.B., III. (1903) Mollusca of South Africa. Marine Investigations of South Africa, 2, 213– 232, pls. 3–5.
  2. ^ a b Drillia lignaria (Sowerby III, 1903).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433604 on 19 October 2011.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

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