Stenodrillia Explained

Stenodrillia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.^{[1] [2]}

Fossil records

This genus is known in the fossil records from the Oligocene to the Pliocene (age range: from 28.4 to 2.588 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata of Italy, Austria, Denmark and Hungary.^[3]

Description

Species within this genus can reach a size of about 3.5-.^[4]

Species

Species within the genus Stenodrillia include:

• † Stenodrillia bellardii Des Moulins 1842 ^[5]
• Stenodrillia horrenda (Watson, 1886)
• † Stenodrillia obeliscus Desmoulins 1842 ^[3]

Species brought into synonymy:

• Stenodrillia acestra (Dall, 1889): synonym of Compsodrillia acestra (Dall, 1889)
• Stenodrillia eucosmia (Dall, 1889): synonym of Compsodrillia eucosmia (Dall, 1889)
• Stenodrillia gundlachi (Dall & Simpson, 1901): synonym of Compsodrillia gundlachi (Dall & Simpson, 1901)
• Stenodrillia haliostrephis (Dall, 1889): synonym of Compsodrillia haliostrephis (Dall, 1889)

References

• Des Moulins, Charles. Révision de quelques espèces de pleurotomes... chez Th. Lafargue, libraire, 1842.
• 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

External links

• WMSD

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Stenodrillia. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=416013 on 2016-09-14
2. P. Bouchet . Yu. I. Kantor . A. Sysoev . N. Puillandre . amp . 2011 . A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda) . . 77 . 3 . 273–308 . 10.1093/mollus/eyr017. free .
3. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=98136 Fossilworks
4. http://www.sealifebase.org/nomenclature/SpeciesList.php?genus=Stenodrillia Sealife Base
5. http://fossile1.free.fr/fossiles/Stenodrilla%20bellardii,%20Des%20Moulins%201842/ Fossiles