Splendrillia wayae explained

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

Description

The length of the shell is 5.2 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Caledonia.

References

• Wells, Fred E. "A revision of the drilliid genera Splendrillia and Plagiostropha (Gastropoda: Conoidea) from New Caledonia, with additional records from other areas." Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 167 (1995): 527–556.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
• Bouchet, Philippe, et al. "A quarter-century of deep-sea malacological exploration in the South and West Pacific: where do we stand? How far to go." Tropical deep-sea Benthos 25 (2008): 9-40
• Holotype at MNHN, Paris

Notes and References

1. WoRMS (2015). Splendrillia wayae. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434979 on 2016-11-27