Cerodrillia elegans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Drilliidae.[1][2]
| Cerodrillia elegans | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Cerodrillia |
| Species: | C. elegans
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| Binomial name | |
| Cerodrillia elegans Fallon, 2016
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 7.8 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Espirito Sancto, Brazil.
References
edit- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2016). Cerodrillia elegans Fallon, 2016. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871942 on 2016-07-31
- ^ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
- Fallon, P.J. (2016). "Taxonomic review of tropical western Atlantic shallow water Drilliidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) including descriptions of 100 new species". Zootaxa. 4090 (1): 1–363.
External links
edit- "Cerodrillia elegans". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.