Splendrillia coccinata

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Splendrillia coccinata
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Drawing of a shell of Splendrillia coccinata
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Splendrillia
Species:
S. coccinata
Binomial name
Splendrillia coccinata
(Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cerodrillia augustae C.B. Adams, 1850
  • Cerodrillia coccinata (Reeve, 1845)
  • Cerodrillia laevisculpta H. von Maltzan, 1883
  • Douglassia nodosa Nowell-Usticke, 1969
  • Drillia coccinata (Reeve, 1845)
  • Drillia innocens Melvill, 1923
  • Drillia interpunctata Smith E.A., 1882
  • Drillia Iaevisulcata H. von Maltzan, 1883
  • Pleurotoma coccinata Reeve, 1845
  • Pleurotoma interpunctata E. A. Smith, 1882
  • Splendrillia innocens J.C. Melvill, 1923
  • Splendrillia nodosa G.W. Nowell-Usticke, 1969

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

Description[]

The shell grows to a length of 16 mm.

The whorls are smooth or obsoletely striate, concave around the upper part, plicately nodose on the periphery. The color of the shell is; pink-white, stained with rose-color between the nodules, and sometimes below them, occasionally faintly banded with rose on the lower part of the body whorl.

Distribution[]

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Colombia, the Lesser Antilles and off Puerto Rico.

References[]

  1. ^ a b Splendrillia coccinata (Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  • Reeve, L. 1845. Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma Conchologia Iconica 1 pls. 19–33
  • Smith, E. A. 1882. Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5)10 206–218.
  • M.M. Schepman, Full text of "Siboga expeditie" (as Drillia interpunctata)
  • Melvill, J. C. 1923. Descriptions of twenty-one species of Turridae (Pleurotomidae) from various localities in the collection of Mr. E. R. Sykes Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 15 162–171, pls. 4–5.
  • Usticke, G. W. Nowell. 1969. A Supplementary Listing of New Shells, to be Added to the Check List of the Marine Shells of St. Croix 32 pp., 6 pls. Author: St. Croix.

External links[]

  • "Splendrillia coccinata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
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