Clathrodrillia wolfei explained

Clathrodrillia wolfei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.^{[1] [2]}

Description

The length of an adult shell varies between 14 mm and 19 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Western Atlantic Ocean (on the North Carolina Shelf) and the Caribbean Sea off Mexico; in the Gulf of Mexico off Alabama, Florida, Louisiana.

Further reading

• Donn L.Tippett, Taxonomic notes on the western Atlantic Turridae (Gastropoda: Conoidea); The Nautilus. v. 109 (1995-1996)
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
• Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
• Fallon . P.J. . Taxonomic review of tropical western Atlantic shallow water Drilliidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) including descriptions of 100 new species . Zootaxa . 2016 . 4090 . 1 . 1–363 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4090.1.1. 27394363 .

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2016). Clathrodrillia wolfei (Tippett, 1995). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871970 on 2016-08-04
2. P. Bouchet . Yu. I. Kantor . A. Sysoev . N. Puillandre . 2011 . A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda) . . 77 . 3 . 273–308 . 10.1093/mollus/eyr017. free .