Cerodrillia carminura

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Cerodrillia carminura
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Cerodrillia
Species:
C. carminura
Binomial name
Cerodrillia carminura
(Dall, 1889)
Synonyms [1]
  • Cerodrillia thea carminura(Dall, 1889)
  • Drillia thea var. carminuraDall, 1889

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

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Description

The shell grows to a length of 12 mm, its diameter 4 mm.

The shell has seven whorls beside the protoconch. It is of a lemonade color. It shows nine ribs on the penultimate whorl, rather straighter than in the type Cerodrillia thea and less swollen on the periphery. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in deep water in the Gulf of Mexico and off West Florida and Barbados.

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References

  1. 1 2 Cerodrillia carminura (Dall, 1889) . 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)". Journal of Molluscan Studies . 77 (3): 273–308. doi: 10.1093/mollus/eyr017 .
  3. Dall W. H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877–78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879–80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 18: 1-492, pls. 10-40