''Clathrodrillia parva'' 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). Clathrodrillia parva Fallon, 2016. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871967 on 2016-08-04

Description

The length of the shell attains the length of 10 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Honduras, the

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, and

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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

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Gastropods described in 2016 {{drilliidae-stub