Suavodrillia kennicotti

Suavodrillia kennicotti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]

Suavodrillia kennicotti
Original image of a shell of Suavodrillia kennicotti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Suavodrillia
Species:
S. kennicotti
Binomial name
Suavodrillia kennicotti
(Dall, 1871)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia kennicotti Dall, 1871
  • Cryptodaphne kennicotti (Dall, 1871)

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 9 mm and 40 mm. The solid shell is white, with traces of thin yellowish epidermis. There are no longitudinal ribs. The outer lip is deeply excavated below the suture. The margin is thin and the sharp columella is twisted.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Taiwan

References
  1. Suavodrillia kennicotti (Dall, 1871). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 August 2011.
  2. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI, p. 209; 1884
  • Dall, 1871. Descriptions of sixty new forms of molluscs from the West Coast of North America and the North Pacific Ocean, with notes on others already described.
Suavodrillia kennicotti (holotype of Drillia kennicotti at the Smithsonian Institution)
  • "Suavodrillia kennicotti". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
  • Smithsonian Institution: holotype


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