''Splendrillia stegeri'' 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 stegeri (Nowell-Usticke, 1959). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=872167 on 2016-12-10

Description

The length of the shell varies between 4 mm and 6.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the

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and

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References

* Nowell-Usticke, Gordon W. ''A Checklist of the Marine Shells of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands''. Lane Press, 1959.

External links

* * stegeri Gastropods described in 1959 {{drilliidae-stub