Drillia poecila is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
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| Apertural view of a shell of Drillia poecila (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Drillia |
| Species: | D. poecila
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| Binomial name | |
| Drillia poecila Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001
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Description edit
The size of an adult shell varies between 29 mm and 50 mm.
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Distribution edit
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Western Central Pacific Ocean off the Philippines and New Caledonia at a depth of 250 m.
References edit
- ^ Drillia poecila Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
- Sysoev A. & Bouchet P. (2001) New and uncommon turriform gastropods (Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the South-West Pacific. In: P. Bouchet & B.A. Marshall (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, volume 22. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 185: 271–320.
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
External links edit
- "Drillia poecila". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
- Bouchet, Philippe, et al. "A quarter-century of deep-sea malacological exploration in the South and West Pacific: where do we stand? How far to go." Tropical deep-sea Benthos 25 (2008): 9-40
- Holotype at MNHN, Paris
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