Splendrillia lucida
species of mollusc
Splendrillia lucida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.
Description
The length of the shell attains 8 mm, its diameter 3 mm.
(Original description) The shell is acuminately fusiform, very smooth and glittering. It is white, slightly and irregularly marbled with pale brown here and there between the ribs and especially behind the outer lip. The suture is distinct. The protoconch is blunt and rounded, almost like that of Pyramidella in character. The shell contains 8 to 9 whorls. The two first are smooth and embryonal, the others divided with a deeply incised groove beneath the suture, longitudinally, thickly, distantly ribbed. The body whorl contains 9 ribs, transversely striated at its base, gibbous posteriorly, with a rather considerable smooth space behind the marginal varix. Next the suture the upper part of the ribs, cut off by the deep spiral groove, have the appearance of a row of granules.
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