Splendrillia vivens

Splendrillia vivens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Splendrillia
Species:	S. vivens
Binomial name
Splendrillia vivens (Powell, 1942)
Synonyms [1]
Splendrillia (Hauturua) vivens(Powell, A.W.B., 1942) Syntomodrillia vivensPowell, 1942

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm, its diameter 3.3 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off Ninety Mile Beach, North Island; also off Chatham Rise at a depth of 550 m.

References

1. Splendrillia vivens (Powell, 1942) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 April 2010.

• Powell, Arthur William Baden. The New Zealand Recent and Fossil Mollusca of the Family Turridae: With General Notes on Turrid Nomenclature and Systematics. No. 2. Unity Press limited, printers, 1942.
• Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp. 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.