Drillia poecila

Drillia poecila
Drillia poecila
Apertural view of Drillia poecila
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species: D. poecila
Binomial name
Drillia poecila
Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001

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

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 29 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Western Central Oacific Ocean off the Philippines and New Caledonia at a depth of 250 m.

References

  1. ^ Drillia poecila Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433609 on 5 April 2010.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

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