Iredalea pygmaea

Iredalea pygmaea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. [1]

Iredalea pygmaea
Scientific classification Edit this 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[1]
  • Haedropleura fukuchiana Yokoyama, 1922
  • Haedropleura pygmaea (Dunker, 1860) ·
  • Mangilia pygmaea Dunker, 1860
  • Mangilia victor G.B. Sowerby III, 1894 (taxon inquirendum)

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.[2]

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. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
  • "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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