Microdrillia trina explained

Microdrillia trina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm. It contains eight whorls, four in the protoconch and four in the teleoconch.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico.and in the Caribbean Sea. Found as a fossil of the Miocene on Trinidad.

References

• Mansfield, Wendell C. Miocene Gastropods and Scaphopods from Trinidad, British West Indies: By Wendell C. Mansfield. No 2559. From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 66, Art. 22, Pp. 1–65, with Pls 1–10. US Government Printing Office, 1925
• Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (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. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas

External links

• • Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308

Notes and References

1. WoRMS (2015). Microdrillia trina Mansfield, 1925. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420256 on 2016-03-17