Drillia pyramidata

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Drillia pyramidata
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Apertural view of a shell of Drillia pyramidata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species:
D. pyramidata
Binomial name
Drillia pyramidata
(Kiener, 1840) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Clavatula pyramidatavon Maltzan, 1883.
  • Pleurotoma pyramidataKiener, 1840

Drillia pyramidata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. [2]

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Description

The shell is cerithiiform, strongly corded on the periphery, smooth above it, except a narrow granulated sutural band, below with oblique slight, ribs and revolving striae. The color of the shell is chocolate, the peripheral and sutural nodes whitish. The interior of the aperture is chocolate, with a white band. The length of the shell is 25 mm. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa (Senegal, Angola)

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References

  1. ↑ Kiener, L.C. (1840a) Genre Pleurotome. (Pleurotoma, Lam.) Spécies Général et Iconographie des Coquilles Vivantes Comprenant la Collection du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Collection Lamarck, celle du Prince Masséna et les Découverts Récente des Voyageurs. Vol. 5. Rousseau, Paris, 84 pp., 27 pls. [Sherborn & Woodward, 1901a, discuss dates of publication for the various parts of Kiener’s monographs.]
  2. 1 2 Drillia pyramidata (Kiener, 1840) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 April 2010.
  3. ↑ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol; VI p. 205; 1884
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