''Microdrillia sansibarica'' is a species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
in the
family
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Borsoniidae
Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Borsoniidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.o ...
.
[WoRMS (2015). Microdrillia sansibarica (Thiele, 1925). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434408 on 2016-03-17]
According to Kilburn this species may be a synonym of ''
Microdrillia patricia'', but appears to have a more produced base and to lack a basal cord on early whorls.
According to Tucker (2004), ''Bela (Acrobela) sansibarica''
Thiele, J., 1925 is a synonym of ''
Bela chuni''
Thiele, 1925. Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295
Description
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Zanzibar Channel.
References
* Thiele, J. 1925. ''Gastropoda der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition, 1898–1899.'' II Wiss. Ergebn. dt. Tiefsee Exped. 'Valdivia' 17(2) 36–382.
External links
Gastropods.com: ''Microdrillia sansibarica''
Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308
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sansibarica
Gastropods described in 1925