Orrmaesia nucella

Orrmaesia nucella
Orrmaesia nucella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Orrmaesia
Species: O. nucella
Binomial name
Orrmaesia nucella
Kilburn, 1988 [1]

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

Contents

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Indian Ocean off Transkei and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

References

  1. ^ Kilburn, R.N. (1988a) Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 4. Subfamilies Drilliinae, Crassispirinae and Strictispirinae. Annals of the Natal Museum, 29, 167–320.
  2. ^ Orrmaesia nucella Kilburn, 1988.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434549 on 1 November 2011.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

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