Splendrillia vivens
Splendrillia vivens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
| Splendrillia vivens | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Splendrillia |
| Species: | S. vivens |
| Binomial name | |
| Splendrillia vivens (Powell, 1942) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
The length of the shell attains 10 mm, its diameter 3.3 mm.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off Ninety Mile Beach, North Island; also off Chatham Rise at a depth of 550 m.
References
- Splendrillia vivens (Powell, 1942). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
- Powell, Arthur William Baden. The New Zealand Recent and Fossil Mollusca of the Family Turridae: With General Notes on Turrid Nomenclature and Systematics. No. 2. Unity Press limited, printers, 1942.
- Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp. 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
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