Microdrillia optima

Microdrillia optima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Borsoniidae
Genus:	Microdrillia
Species:	M. optima
Binomial name
Microdrillia optima (Thiele, 1925)
Synonyms [1]
Bela optimaThiele, 1925 (original combination)

Microdrillia optima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. ^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Zanzibar Channel.

References

1. WoRMS (2015). Microdrillia optima (Thiele, 1925). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434405 on 2016-03-17

• Thiele, J. 1925. Gastropoda der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition, 1898–1899. II Wiss. Ergebn. dt. Tiefsee Exped. 'Valdivia' 17(2) 36–382.

External links

• "Microdrillia optima". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308