''Splendrillia coccinata'' is a

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of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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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 ...

Description

The shell grows to a length of 16 mm. The whorls are smooth or obsoletely striate, concave around the upper part, plicately nodose on the periphery. The color of the shell is; pink-white, stained with rose-color between the nodules, and sometimes below them, occasionally faintly banded with rose on the lower part of the body whorl.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Colombia, the

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and off

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References

* Reeve, L. 1845. ''Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma'' Conchologia Iconica 1 pls. 19–33 *
M.M. Schepman, Full text of "Siboga expeditie"
(as ''Drillia interpunctata'') * Melvill, J. C. 1923. ''Descriptions of twenty-one species of Turridae (Pleurotomidae) from various localities in the collection of Mr. E. R. Sykes'' Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 15 162–171, pls. 4–5. * Usticke, G. W. Nowell. 1969. ''A Supplementary Listing of New Shells, to be Added to the Check List of the Marine Shells of St. Croix'' 32 pp., 6 pls. Author: St. Croix.

External links

*
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Splendrillia Coccinata coccinata Gastropods described in 1845