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Syntomodrillia cookei
Shell of Syntomodrillia cookei (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Syntomodrillia
Species:
S. cookei
Binomial name
Syntomodrillia cookei
(E. A. Smith, 1888)
Synonyms [1]
  • 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. [1]

Description

The fusiform shell grows to a length of 8.5 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), Guadeloupe and the western Atlantic Ocean ( northern Brazil)

References

  1. ^ a b 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
  • "Leptadrillia cookei". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Zootaxa. 682:1-1295.
  • 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.
  • De Jong K.M. & Coomans H.E. (1988) Marine gastropods from Curaçao, Aruba and Bonaire. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 261 pp.