Acinodrillia paula

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Acinodrillia paula
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Acinodrillia
Species:
A. paula
Binomial name
Acinodrillia paula
(Thiele, 1925)
Synonyms [1]

Pleurotoma paulaThiele, 1925

Acinodrillia paula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. [1] [2]

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Description

The length of the claviform shell attains 11.8 mm, its width 4.2 mm. It shows the general characteristics of the genus, but is especially characterized by the axial grooves that are cut on the body whorl by spiral grooves, forming a lozenge-shaped pattern. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Agulhas Bank, South Africa

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References

  1. 1 2 Acinodrillia paula (Thiele, 1925) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 September 2011.
  2. ↑ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)" (PDF). Journal of Molluscan Studies . 77 (3): 273–308. doi: 10.1093/mollus/eyr017 .
  3. ↑ Kilburn, R. N. "Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 4. Subfamilies Drilliinae, Crassispirinae and Strictispirinae." Annals of the Natal Museum 29.1 (1988): 167–320


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