Splendrillia armata

Splendrillia armata
	Marine snail, Splendrillia armata Powell, 1942, collected 11 February 1954, Chatham Rise, New Zealand. Te Papa (M.009789)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Splendrillia
Species:	S. armata
Binomial name
	Splendrillia armata; Powell, 1942

Splendrillia armata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.^[1] This species was first described by Baden Powell (malacologist) in 1942 as a fossil from middle Pliocene sediments near Hurunui River.^[2]

Description

The height of the shell of the holotype is 14.75 mm; its diameter 6 mm.

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off North Island.

↑ Marshall, B.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Splendrillia armata. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599027 on 26 November 2016
↑ Powell, A. W. B. (1942). "The New Zealand recent and fossil Mollusca of the family Turridae, with general notes on Turrid nomenclature and systematics". Bulletin of the Auckland Institue and Museum. 3: 103. Archived from the original on 28 July 2025.

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