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Kylix rugifera (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)

drillia, Drillia

Length: 13 mm; width: 5 mm.

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth).

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Conoidea

Family
Drilliidae

Genus
Kylix

Species
rugifera

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Drillia albemarlensis Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1902, type locality: Galapagos; ANSP: 81947 (Holotype of Drillia albemarlensis Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1902), LACM: several specimens (ex.: D-4, D-6, D-16, A.5498, AHF 157-34, AHF 170-34, AHF 193-34, AHF 325-35, AHF 326-35, AHF 327-35, AHF 330-35, AHF 790-38, AHF 807-38), CAS: 42186, BMNH: 1991143 (Syntypes, type locality: Galapagos), CDRS: 530

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Galapagos islands.

References

  • 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.
  • Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
  • Pilsbry, H.A. Vanatta, E.G. (1902) Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898-1899. XIII: Marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 4: 549-560.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Kylix rugifera", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=9578. Accessed 31 October 2026.