Splendrillia vivens

Splendrillia vivens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Drilliidae
Genus:Splendrillia
Species: S. vivens
Binomial name
Splendrillia vivens
(Powell, 1942)
Synonyms[1]
  • Splendrillia (Hauturua) vivens (Powell, A.W.B., 1942)
  • Syntomodrillia vivens Powell, 1942

Splendrillia vivens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

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

  • 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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