Microdrillia zeuxippe

Microdrillia zeuxippe is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]

Microdrillia zeuxippe
Original image of a shell of Microdrillia zeuxippe
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Microdrillia
Species:
M. zeuxippe
Binomial name
Microdrillia zeuxippe
(Dall, 1919)
Synonyms[1]
  • Taranis zeuxippe Dall, 1919 (original combination)

Description

The height of the shell attains 3.8 mm, its width 2.2 mm.

(Original description) The minute shell has a white or warm brown color. The turbinate nucleus has a minute smooth apex and three later axially concavely arcuate ribbed whorls. The 3½ subsequent whorls show a distinct suture. The spiral sculpture shows between the sutures two prominent keels and an anterior smaller one on which the suture is laid. On the body whorl there are about eight minor threads in front of those mentioned, all with wider interspaces. The axial sculpture consists of prominent oblique lines protractively cutting the interspaces. The anal sulcus is shallow, distinct and close to the suture. The outer lip is thi and slightly produced. The inner lip is erased. The columella is short and straight. The siphonal canal is hardly differentiated.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Galapagos Islands.

References
  1. WoRMS (2015). Microdrillia zeuxippe (Dall, 1919). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434411 on 2016-03-17
  2. Dall (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 56 (1920) (described as Taranis zeuxippe)
  • "Microdrillia zeuxippe". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308
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