Strictispira drangai

Strictispira drangai is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Strictispira drangai
Shell of Strictispira drangai (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Strictispira
Species:
S. drangai
Binomial name
Strictispira drangai
(Schwengel, 1951)
Synonyms
  • Crassispira drangai Schwengel, 1951
  • Crassispira (Crassispirella) drangai (Schwengel, 1951)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 14 mm and 20 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off West Florida, the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands and Barbados.

References
  1. Strictispira drangai (Schwengel, 1951). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Donn L. Tippett, The genus Strictispira in the western Atlantic (Gastropoda: Conoidea), Malacologia 48 (2006)
  • Gastropods.com: Strictispira drangai



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