Clathrodrillia lophoessa

Clathrodrillia lophoessa
Shell of Clathrodrillia lophoessa (specimen at the Natural History Museum, London)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Clathrodrillia
Species:	C. lophoessa
Binomial name
Clathrodrillia lophoessa (Watson, 1882)
Synonyms [1]
Clionella lophoessaR.B. Watson, 1882 Kurtzia lophoessaR.B. Watson, 1882 Micropleurotomella lophoessaR.B. Watson, 1882 Pleurotoma (Drillia) lophoëssaWatson, 1882 (original combination)

Clathrodrillia lophoessa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. ^{[1] [2]}

Description

The length of the shell attains 9 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Atlantic Ocean off Pernambuco, Brazil at depths of 640 m to 1234 m.

References

1. Clathrodrillia lophoessa (Watson, 1882) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 7 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 .

• Watson, R. B. 1882, Challenger Expedition, Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenge; Zoology v. 15 pt. 41-43, 1886 (described as Clionella lophoessa)
• Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas

External links

• "Kurtzia lophoessa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.