Drillia acapulcana

Drillia acapulcana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Drillia
Species:	D. acapulcana
Binomial name
	Drillia acapulcana; (Lowe, 1935)
Synonyms
	Clavus acapulcana DuShane & R. Poorman, 1967; Elaeocyma acapulcana Lowe, 1935;

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

Originally named Elaeocyma acapulcana by H.N. Lowe in 1935, it was renamed Drillia acapulcana by Mclean in 1971.^[2]

Description[]

The length of the shell attains 23 mm, its diameter 10 mm.

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Eastern Pacific off Mexico.

^ ^a ^b Drillia acapulcana (Lowe, 1935). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 October 2011.
^ McLean, J.H. (1971a) A revised classification of the family Turridae, with the proposal of new subfamilies, genera, and subgenera from the Eastern Pacific. The Veliger, 14, 114–130

Angeline Myra Keen (1971). Sea Shells of Tropical West America: Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. Stanford University Press. p. 701. ISBN 978-0-8047-0736-7.
Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295

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