''Splendrillia grandis'' 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 ...

.Bouchet, P. (2016). Splendrillia grandis Fallon, 2016. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=872160 on 2016-11-21

Description

The length of the shell attains 18 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off the

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, 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

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Gastropods described in 2016 {{drilliidae-stub