Carinodrillia dichroa, common name the two-toned turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
| Carinodrillia dichroa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Carinodrillia |
| Species: | C. dichroa
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| Binomial name | |
| Carinodrillia dichroa Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932
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Description
editThe shell has a spiral structure, with a commonly off-white colouration above the periphery on the upper half of the whorl, and dark brown below it. It has a narrow brown band above the suture with a moderately developed spiral sculpture in comparison with other species of the genus Carinodrillia.[2] The length of the shell varies between 15 mm and 26 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs from the Sea of Cortez, West Mexico to Ecuador, at a depth of 10 to 40 m. It is found on gravel bottoms near rock.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Carinodrillia dichroa Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ a b Keen, Angeline Myra (1971). Sea Shells of Tropical West America; Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru (2nd ed.). California: Stanford University Press. p. 728. ISBN 0804707367.
- Pilsbry, Henry Augustus, and Herbert N. Lowe. "West Mexican and Central American mollusks collected by HN Lowe, 1929–31." Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1932): 33-144.
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.
- "Carinodrillia dichroa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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