''Splendrillia persica'' is a
species
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of
sea snail, a marine
gastropod 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 es ...
in the
family
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Drilliidae
The Drilliidae are a taxonomic family of small predatory sea snails with high-spired shells. They are classified as marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
This family has no subfamilies. It consists of about 30 genera and approxi ...
.
Description
The length of the fusiform shell attains 9 mm, its diameter 3 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the
Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. The bo ...
.
References
* Wells F.E. (1993) ''New records of Splendrillia (Gastropoda: Turridae) from northwestern Australia, with the description of a new species.'' Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 14: 113–117
External links
*
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295.*
persica Persica may be:
* Persica (Ctesias), a lost historical work
* Persica, a subgenus of plants
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Gastropods described in 1888
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