Clathrodrillia petuchi

Clathrodrillia petuchi
Shell of Clathrodrillia petuchi (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Clathrodrillia
Species:	C. petuchi
Binomial name
Clathrodrillia petuchi (Tippett, 1995)
Synonyms [1]
Drillia (Clathrodrillia) petuchiTippett, 1995 (basionym) Drillia petuchiTippett, 1995 (original combination)

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

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 53 mm. It is hollow on the inside. it has a short aperture and narrow oval, anterior canal.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

References

1. Clathrodrillia petuchi (Tippett, 1995) . 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 .

• Donn L.Tippett, Taxonomic notes on the western Atlantic Turridae (Gastropoda: Conoidea); The Nautilus. v. 109 (1995–1996)
• Fallon, P.J. (2016). "Taxonomic review of tropical western Atlantic shallow water Drilliidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) including descriptions of 100 new species" . Zootaxa. 4090 (1): 1–363. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4090.1.1. PMID   27394363.

External links

• "Clathrodrillia petuchi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.