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Drilliidae
Sign in to saveThe Drilliidae are a taxonomic family of small predatory sea snails with high-spired shells. They are classified as marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyDrilliidae
Habitatmarine, freshwater
Observations recorded23,753
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 658
- With media
- 117
- Family
- Drilliidae
- Collections
- LACM, PRI, UF, UCMP, MCZ
- Recorded in
- United States, Ecuador, Cuba, Cook Islands
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- Description
- Distribution
- Taxonomic history
- Taxonomy
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The Drilliidae are a taxonomic family of small predatory sea snails with high-spired shells. They are classified as marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
This family has no subfamilies. It consists of about 30 genera and approximately 500 recent species.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Drilliidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.