Microdrillia sansibarica

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

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

Contents

According to Kilburn this species may be a synonym of Microdrillia patricia , but appears to have a more produced base and to lack a basal cord on early whorls. [2]

According to Tucker (2004), Bela (Acrobela) sansibaricaThiele, J., 1925 is a synonym of Bela chuni Thiele, 1925. [3] [4]

Description

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Zanzibar Channel.

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References

  1. 1 2 WoRMS (2015). Microdrillia sansibarica (Thiele, 1925). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434408 on 2016-03-17
  2. ↑ R.N. Kilburn, Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 3. Subfamily Borsoniinae; Annals of the Natal Museum, 1986
  3. ↑ "Bela chuni". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  4. ↑ Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
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