Splendrillia mikrokamelos

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Splendrillia mikrokamelos
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Splendrillia
Species:
S. mikrokamelos
Binomial name
Splendrillia mikrokamelos
Kilburn, 1988

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

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Description

The small claviform shell has a length of 6.2 mm, its diameter 2.6 mm. The vitreous protoconch is very small and consists of 1½ whorl (breadth ca 0,75 mm), the teleoconch contains 5 whorls.. The axial ribs are strong (with 9 ribs on the penultimate whorl). The body whorl has an inverted cone shape and its dorsum is prominently humped. The short siphonal canal is narrow and twisted slightly to the right. The aperture is narrowly pear-shaped. The outer lip is somewhat flattened in the middle. The columella is almost straight. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the upper continental slope of Transkei, South Africa.

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References

  1. Splendrillia mikrokamelos Kilburn, 1988 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 April 2010.
  2. Kilburn, R.N. (1988) Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 4. Subfamilies Drilliinae, Crassispirinae and Strictispirinae. Annals of the Natal Museum, 29, 167–320.