Drillia macilenta
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| Drillia macilenta | |
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| Original image of the shell and protoconch of Drillia macilenta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Drillia |
| Species: | D. macilenta |
| Binomial name | |
| Drillia macilenta (Melvill J.C., 1923) [1] | |
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Drillia macilenta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]
The type described by Barnard (1969) is smaller than Turris (Surcula) macella (Melvill, 1923). Kilburn (1988) supposed that this species was an undescribed Inquisitor or Agladrillia.[3][4] It is described in WoRMS as Agladrillia macella (Melvill, 1923) (original combination: Turris macella Melvill, 1923).
J.C. Melvill renamed in 1923 Surcula macilenta, as the preoccupied name had already been given to a Tertiary fossil species Murex macilenta as long ago as 1766 by Dr. Solander; later, in 1799, named by F. E. Edwards as Pleurotoma macilenta. For these reasons, Melvill renamed the species as Surcula macella.