Syntomodrillia lissotropis

Syntomodrillia lissotropis
Original image of a shell of Syntomodrillia lissotropis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Syntomodrillia
Species: S. lissotropis
Binomial name
Syntomodrillia lissotropis
(Dall, 1881)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pleurotoma (Mangilia) lissotropis Dall, 1881 (original combination)
  • Pleurotoma lissotropis Dall, 1881
  • Splendrillia lissotropis (Dall, 1881)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 4.5 mm, its diameter 1.75 mm.

(Original description) The small, slender shell is somewhat bluntly tipped. It contains six whorls, shining with the lustre of paraffine. The protoconch is rather large, bullte, smooth, translucent, shining. The remaining whorls show transverse, stout, shouldered ribs (on the body whorl eleven) becoming obsolete anteriorly, and succeeded by a few (four or five) revolving riblets at the anterior extreme of the siphonal canal. The suture is appressed. The lines of growth are not evident. The whorls are rather inflated in appearance. The sinus notch is very slight. The aperture is small and unusually short. The columella is very short, straight, and pointed.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and off Southern Brasil.

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P.; Sartori, André F. (2016). Syntomodrillia lissotropis (Dall, 1881). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=762265 on 2016-11-20
  2. ↑ Dall, W. H. 1881. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Caribbean Sea, 1877-79, by the United States Coast Survey Steamer 'Blake,'. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 9: 33-144

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