Imaclava ima

Imaclava ima, common name Ima's turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]

Imaclava ima
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Imaclava
Species:
I. ima
Binomial name
Imaclava ima
Bartsch, 1944 [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Drillia (Imaclava) ima (Barsch, 1944)

McLean (1971) considered this species to be a synonym of Imaclava unimaculata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)[3]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 50 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California, Mexico.

References

  1. Bartsch, P. (1944a) Some notes upon West American turrid mollusks. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 57, 25โ€“30.
  2. Imaclava ima Bartsch, 1944. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 26 October 2011.
  3. McLean, J.H. (1971b) Family Turridae. In Keen, A.M. (Ed.) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. Second Edition. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, pp. 686โ€“766.
  • "Imaclava ima". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


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