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Iredalea pygmaea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Iredalea
Species:	I. pygmaea
Binomial name
Iredalea pygmaea (Dunker, 1860)
Synonyms
Haedropleura fukuchiana Yokoyama, 1922 Haedropleura pygmaea (Dunker, 1860) · Mangilia pygmaea Dunker, 1860 Mangilia victor G.B. Sowerby III, 1894 (taxon inquirendum)

Iredalea pygmaea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 5 mm.

The light-brown shell is longitudinally plicate. The plicae are evanescent towards the base of the body whorl.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Mauritius, Taiwan, Japan and Fiji.

References

1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Iredalea pygmaea (Dunker, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=762256 on 2023-09-17
2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (described as Mangilia pygmaea)

• Liu J.Y. (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.

External links

• "Haedropleura pygmaea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Dunker, W. (1860). Neue japanische Mollusken. Malakozoologische Blätter. 6: 221-240
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.

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