Splendrillia granatella

Splendrillia granatella
Original image of a shell of Splendrillia granatella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Splendrillia
Species:	S. granatella
Binomial name
Splendrillia granatella (Melvill & Standen, 1903)
Synonyms [1]
Drillia granatellaMelvill & Standen, 1903

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.

It is a smooth, shining, fusiform shell of pomegranate-pink color. It contains 6 whorls, of which two in the protoconch. The sculpture consists of few ribs, numbering 7 close to the body whorl. The aperture is slightly ovate. The white-colored outer lip is thin..The sinus is wide. The siphonal canal is very short. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

References

1. Splendrillia granatella (Melvill & Standen, 1903) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 April 2010.
2. Melvill & Standen (1903), Descriptions of 68 new gastropoda from the Red Sea, the Gulf of Oman and the Northern Arabian Sea; The Annals and magazine of natural history 7th ser. v. 12 (1903)

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.