Drillia acapulcana explained

Drillia acapulcana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.

Originally named Elaeocyma acapulcana by H.N. Lowe in 1935, it was renamed Drillia acapulcana by Mclean in 1971.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 23 mm, its diameter 10 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Eastern Pacific off Mexico.

References

• Book: Angeline Myra Keen. Sea Shells of Tropical West America: Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. 1971. Stanford University Press. 978-0-8047-0736-7. 701.
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295

Notes and References

1. McLean, J.H. (1971a) A revised classification of the family Turridae, with the proposal of new subfamilies, genera, and subgenera from the Eastern Pacific. The Veliger, 14, 114–130