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Strictispira drangai

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Strictispira drangai
Shell of Strictispira drangai (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Strictispira
Species:
S. drangai
Binomial name
Strictispira drangai
(Schwengel, 1951)
Synonyms
  • Crassispira drangai Schwengel, 1951
  • Crassispira (Crassispirella) drangai (Schwengel, 1951)

Strictispira drangai is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Description

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The length of the shell varies between 14 mm and 20 mm.

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off West Florida, the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands and Barbados.

References

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  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • Donn L. Tippett, The genus Strictispira in the western Atlantic (Gastropoda: Conoidea), Malacologia 48 (2006)
  • Gastropods.com: Strictispira drangai