''Splendrillia academica'' is a
species
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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
family
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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 ...
.
Description
The length of the shell attains 13.7 mm, its diameter 5.3 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the
demersal zone
The demersal zone is the part of the sea or ocean (or deep lake) consisting of the part of the water column near to (and significantly affected by) the seabed and the benthos. The demersal zone is just above the benthic zone and forms a laye ...
of the Pacific Ocean off Isla Santa Cruz,
Galapagos Islands, at a depth of 60 m.
References
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295. McLean & Poorman, 1971. New species of Tropical Eastern Pacific Turridae; The Veliger, 14, 89–113
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Gastropods described in 1971
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