Splendrillia coccinata

Splendrillia coccinata
Drawing of a shell of Splendrillia coccinata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Splendrillia
Species:	S. coccinata
Binomial name
Splendrillia coccinata (Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms [1]
Cerodrillia augustaeC.B. Adams, 1850 Cerodrillia coccinata(Reeve, 1845) Cerodrillia laevisculptaH. von Maltzan, 1883 Douglassia nodosaNowell-Usticke, 1969 Drillia coccinata(Reeve, 1845) Drillia innocensMelvill, 1923 Drillia interpunctataSmith E.A., 1882 Drillia IaevisulcataH. von Maltzan, 1883 Pleurotoma coccinataReeve, 1845 Pleurotoma interpunctataE. A. Smith, 1882 Splendrillia innocensJ.C. Melvill, 1923 Splendrillia nodosaG.W. Nowell-Usticke, 1969

Splendrillia coccinata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. ^[1]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 16 mm.

The whorls are smooth or obsoletely striate, concave around the upper part, plicately nodose on the periphery. The color of the shell is; pink-white, stained with rose-color between the nodules, and sometimes below them, occasionally faintly banded with rose on the lower part of the body whorl.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Colombia, the Lesser Antilles and off Puerto Rico.

References

1. Splendrillia coccinata (Reeve, 1845) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 April 2010.

• Reeve, L. 1845. Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma Conchologia Iconica 1 pls. 19–33
• Smith, E.A. (1877). "Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4 (19): 488–501.
• M.M. Schepman, Full text of "Siboga expeditie" (as Drillia interpunctata)
• Melvill, J. C. 1923. Descriptions of twenty-one species of Turridae (Pleurotomidae) from various localities in the collection of Mr. E. R. Sykes Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 15 162–171, pls. 4–5.
• Usticke, G. W. Nowell. 1969. A Supplementary Listing of New Shells, to be Added to the Check List of the Marine Shells of St. Croix 32 pp., 6 pls. Author: St. Croix.

External links

• "Splendrillia coccinata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.