Drillia poecila

Drillia poecila
Apertural view of a shell of Drillia poecila (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	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]

Description[]

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

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Distribution[]

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

References[]

• Sysoev A. & Bouchet P. (2001) New and uncommon turriform gastropods (Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the South-West Pacific. In: P. Bouchet & B.A. Marshall (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, volume 22. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 185: 271–320.
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295

External links[]

• "Drillia poecila". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
• Bouchet, Philippe, et al. "A quarter-century of deep-sea malacological exploration in the South and West Pacific: where do we stand? How far to go." Tropical deep-sea Benthos 25 (2008): 9-40
• Holotype at MNHN, Paris

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