Splendrillia wayae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
| Splendrillia wayae | |
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| Shell of Splendrillia wayae (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Splendrillia |
| Species: | S. wayae
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| Binomial name | |
| Splendrillia wayae Wells, 1995
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Description
editThe length of the shell is 5.2 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off New Caledonia.
References
edit- ^ a b WoRMS (2015). Splendrillia wayae. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434979 on 2016-11-27
- Wells, Fred E. "A revision of the drilliid genera Splendrillia and Plagiostropha (Gastropoda: Conoidea) from New Caledonia, with additional records from other areas." Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 167 (1995): 527–556.
External links
edit- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
- Bouchet, Philippe, et al. "A quarter-century of deep-sea malacological exploration in the South and West Pacific: where do we stand? How far to go." Tropical deep-sea Benthos 25 (2008): 9-40
- Holotype at MNHN, Paris