Buchema interpleura

Buchema interpleura
Shell of Buchema interpleura (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Buchema
Species:
B. interpleura
Binomial name
Buchema interpleura
Synonyms[1]
  • Clathrodrillia interpleura (Dall & Simpson, 1901)
  • Drillia interpleura Dall & Simpson, 1901 (original description)

Buchema interpleura is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1][2]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 11 and 12 mm (0.43 and 0.47 in).

Distribution

This marine species occurs from Mexico to Northeast Brazil.

References

  1. ^ a b WoRMS. "Buchema interpleura (W. H. Dall & C. T. Simpson, 1901)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  2. ^ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  • Dall, William Healey, and Charles Torrey Simpson. The Mollusca of Porto Rico. US Government Printing Office, 1901.


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