Decollidrillia nigra is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

Decollidrillia nigra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Decollidrillia
Species:
D. nigra
Binomial name
Decollidrillia nigra
Habe & Ito, 1965

Description edit

The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 14 mm.

Distribution edit

This marine species occurs in the Sea of Japan and off the Kuriles, Russia

References edit

  • Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225-383
  • Medinskaya, Alexandra I. "Foregut anatomy of the Turrinae (Gastropoda, Conoidea, Turridae)." Ruthenica 12 (2002): 135-159.
  • Medinskaya, Alexandra I. "Structure of the venom gland-muscular bulb complex in the family Turridae (Gastropoda, Conoidea)." Ruthenica 12.2 (2002): 125-133.

External links edit

  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • Petit, Richard E., and Rudiger Bieler. "On The New Names Introduced in the Various Printings of" Shells of the World in Colour"[Vol. I by Tadashige Habe and Kiyoshi Ito; Vol. II by Tadashige Habe and Sadao Kosuge." MALACOLOGIA-PHILADELPHIA- 38 (1996): 35-46.]