Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Drillia macleani
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Conoidea
Family
Drilliidae
Genus
Drillia
Species
macleani
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Drillia sinuosa Mc Lean & Poorman, 1971 (non Bellardi, 1877); LACM: 1491 (Holotype of Drillia sinuosa, type locality: Galapagos)
Origin: Native
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- McLean, J.H. Poorman, R. (1971) New species of tropical eastern Pacific Turridae. The Veliger 14: 89-113.
- Skoglund, C. (1990) Panamic Province molluscan range extensions from Bahia Cocos, Costa Rica. The Festivus 22(9): 100.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Drillia macleani", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10692. Accessed 5 June 2026.