''Cerodrillia yucatecana'' is a

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of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the

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Drilliidae The Drilliidae are a taxonomic family of small predatory sea snails with high-spired shells. They are classified as marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. This family has no subfamilies. It consists of about 30 genera and approxi ...

.Bouchet, P. (2016). Cerodrillia yucatecana Fallon, 2016. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871958 on 2016-07-31

Description

The length of the shell varies between 9 mm and 14.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off

Quintana Roo Quintana Roo ( , ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 11 mu ...

, Yucatán, Mexico.

References

Fallon P.J. (2016). Taxonomic review of tropical western Atlantic shallow water Drilliidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) including descriptions of 100 new species. Zootaxa. 4090(1): 1–363

External links

* yucatecana Gastropods described in 2016 {{drilliidae-stub