Syntomodrillia cookei

Syntomodrillia cookei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Syntomodrillia
Species: S. cookei
Binomial name
Syntomodrillia cookei
(E. A. Smith, 1888) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Leptadrillia cookei (E. A. Smith, 1888)
  • Pleurotoma (Drillia) cookei Smith E. A., 1888
  • Pleurotoma cookei E. A. Smith, 1888

Syntomodrillia cookei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 8 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the benthic zone of the Caribbean Sea (Jamaica, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Puerto Rico), the Gulf of Mexico (Florida to Texas) and the Western Atlantic Ocean (Northern Brazil)

References

  1. Smith, E.A. (1888) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 6, 2, 300–317.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2016). Syntomodrillia cookei. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=872172 on 2016-10-19
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