Buchema liella

Buchema liella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.

Buchema liella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Horaiclavidae
Genus:	Buchema
Species:	B. liella
Binomial name
Buchema liella (Corea, 1934)
Synonyms
Carinodrillia (Buchema) liella Corea, 1934

It was formerly included within the family Turridae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 15 mm, its diameter 5.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and North Brazil

References

• Corea, Lois Fleming. "New marine mollusks (with three plates)." (1934).
• Bartsch, P. (1934) Reports on the collections obtained by the first Johnson-Smithsonian deep-sea expedition to the Puerto Rican deep; new mollusks of the family Turritidae. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 91, 1–29, 8 pls

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.