Splendrillia acostata

Splendrillia acostata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Splendrillia
Species:	S. acostata
Binomial name
	Splendrillia acostata; (Verco, 1909)
Synonyms
	Austrodrillia woodsi acostata J.C. Verco, 1909; Drillia woodsi acostata Verco J.C., 1909 (original combination); Melatoma woodsi acostata (Verco, 1909);

Splendrillia acostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.^[1]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia and Western Australia

Verco, J.C. 1909. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 293-342
Hedley, Charles (1920), A revision of the Australian Turridae; Records of the Australian Museum, vol. XIII nr. 6, Sydney
Wells, F.E. 1990. Revision of the recent Australian Turridae referred to the genera Splendrillia and Austrodrillia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 11: 73-117
Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.