''Imaclava ima'', common name Ima's turrid, is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...

of sea snail, a marine gastropod

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...

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 ...

. McLean (1971) considered this species to be a synonym of ''

Imaclava unimaculata ''Imaclava unimaculata'', common name the brown-spot turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. Description The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 47 mm. The shell lacks a su ...

'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)McLean, J.H. (1971b) Family Turridae. In Keen, A.M. (Ed.) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. Second Edition. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, pp. 686–766.

Description

The shell grows to a length of 50 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the

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off

Baja California Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mex ...

, Mexico.

References

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

External links

* ima Gastropods described in 1944 {{drilliidae-stub pt:Imaclava pilsbryi vi:Imaclava pilsbryi