Splendrillia coccinata

Splendrillia coccinata
	Drawing of a shell of Splendrillia coccinata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Splendrillia
Species:	S. coccinata
Binomial name
	Splendrillia coccinata; (Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms
	Cerodrillia augustae C.B. Adams, 1850; Cerodrillia coccinata (Reeve, 1845); Cerodrillia laevisculpta H. von Maltzan, 1883; Douglassia nodosa Nowell-Usticke, 1969; Drillia coccinata (Reeve, 1845); Drillia innocens Melvill, 1923; Drillia interpunctata Smith E.A., 1882; Drillia Iaevisulcata H. von Maltzan, 1883; Pleurotoma coccinata Reeve, 1845; Pleurotoma interpunctata E. A. Smith, 1882; Splendrillia innocens J.C. Melvill, 1923; Splendrillia nodosa G.W. Nowell-Usticke, 1969;

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

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 Lesser Antilles and off Puerto Rico.

References

^ ^a ^b Splendrillia coccinata (Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.

Reeve, L. 1845. Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma Conchologia Iconica 1 pls. 19-33
Smith, E. A. 1882. Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5)10 206-218.
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

[WoRMS-1] Splendrillia coccinata (Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.

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