Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Clade Hypsogastropoda Scientific name Splendrillia coccinata | Phylum Mollusca Clade Caenogastropoda Clade Neogastropoda Rank Species | |
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Splendrillia coccinata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.
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Description
The shell grows to a length of 16 mm.
The whorls are smooth or obsoletely striate, concave around the upper part, plicately nodose on the periphery. The color of the shell is; pink-white, stained with rose-color between the nodules, and sometimes below them, occasionally faintly banded with rose on the lower part of the body whorl.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Colombia, the Lesser Antilles and off Puerto Rico.
References
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