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Neodrillia cydia

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Neodrillia cydia
Shell of Neodrillia cydia (specimen in the MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Neodrillia
Species:
N. cydia
Binomial name
Neodrillia cydia
Bartsch, 1943
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia antiguensis P. Bartsch, 1943
  • Drillia cydia (Bartsch, 1943)
  • Drillia encia P. Bartsch, 1943
  • Drillia jamaicensis P. Bartsch, 1943
  • Drillia ustickei B. Hayes, 1959
  • Drillia (Neodrillia) cydia (Bartsch, 1943)
  • Fenimorea ustickei (Nowell-Usticke, 1959)
  • Inodrillia ustickei Hayes, M. in Nowell-Usticke, G.W., 1959
  • Neodrillia antiguensis Bartsch, P., 1943
  • Neodrillia barbadensis Bartsch, P., 1943
  • Neodrillia encia Bartsch, P., 1943
  • Neodrillia jamaicensis Bartsch, P., 1943

Neodrillia cydia, common name the Cydia drillia, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]

Description

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The size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 22 mm.

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Western Atlantic off North Carolina, in the Caribbean Sea off Panama and Jamaica, and off the Lesser Antilles (Antigua, Barbados, St. Thomas)

References

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  1. ^ Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
  2. ^ Neodrillia cydia Bartsch, 1943. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 November 2011.
  • Bartsch, P. (1943) A review of some West Atlantic turritid mollusks. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural, 17, 81–122, pls. 7–15
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