Decollidrillia nigra

Decollidrillia nigra is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

Decollidrillia nigra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Decollidrillia
Species:
D. nigra
Binomial name
Decollidrillia nigra
Habe & Ito, 1965

Description

The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 14 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Sea of Japan and off the Kuriles, Russia

References

  • Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225-383
  • Medinskaya, Alexandra I. "Foregut anatomy of the Turrinae (Gastropoda, Conoidea, Turridae)." Ruthenica 12 (2002): 135-159.
  • Medinskaya, Alexandra I. "Structure of the venom gland-muscular bulb complex in the family Turridae (Gastropoda, Conoidea)." Ruthenica 12.2 (2002): 125-133.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • Petit, Richard E., and Rudiger Bieler. "On The New Names Introduced in the Various Printings of" Shells of the World in Colour"[Vol. I by Tadashige Habe and Kiyoshi Ito; Vol. II by Tadashige Habe and Sadao Kosuge." MALACOLOGIA-PHILADELPHIA- 38 (1996): 35-46.]


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