''Syntomodrillia tantula'' is an extinct
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 ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2016). Syntomodrillia tantula (Conrad, 1848) †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=872250 on 2016-12-15]
The secondary junior
homonym
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''Syntomodrillia tantula''
Bartsch, P., 1934 is considered by Fallon a synonym of ''
Syntomodrillia portoricana
''Syntomodrillia portoricana'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae
The Drilliidae are a taxonomic family of small predatory sea snails with high-spired shells. They are classified as marine gastrop ...
''
Fallon, P.J., 2016
Description
Distribution
This extinct species was found in the
United States state
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of
Mississippi
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.
References
* Conrad, Timothy Abbot. Observations on the Eocene Formation, and Descriptions of One Hundred and Five New Fossils of that Period, from the Vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi: With an Appendix. 1848.
External links
Smith, E.A. (1888) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 6, 2, 300–317Fallon 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
tantula
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