| Drillia acapulcana | |
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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: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Drillia |
| Species: | D. acapulcana |
| Binomial name | |
| Drillia acapulcana (Lowe, 1935) | |
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Drillia acapulcana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.
Originally named Elaeocyma acapulcana by H.N. Lowe in 1935, it was renamed Drillia acapulcana by Mclean in 1971.
Description
The length of the shell attains 23 mm, its diameter 10 mm.
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Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Eastern Pacific off Mexico.
References
- ^ Drillia acapulcana (Lowe, 1935). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 October 2011.
- McLean, J.H. (1971a) A revised classification of the family Turridae, with the proposal of new subfamilies, genera, and subgenera from the Eastern Pacific. The Veliger, 14, 114–130
- Angeline Myra Keen (1971). Sea Shells of Tropical West America: Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. Stanford University Press. p. 701. ISBN 978-0-8047-0736-7.
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295
External links
- "Drillia acapulcana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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