Iredalea pygmaea

Iredalea pygmaea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.^[1]

Iredalea pygmaea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Iredalea
Species:	I. pygmaea
Binomial name
Iredalea pygmaea (Dunker, 1860)
Synonyms[1]
Haedropleura fukuchiana Yokoyama, 1922 Haedropleura pygmaea (Dunker, 1860) · Mangilia pygmaea Dunker, 1860 Mangilia victor G.B. Sowerby III, 1894 (taxon inquirendum)

Description

The length of the shell attains 5 mm.

The light-brown shell is longitudinally plicate. The plicae are evanescent towards the base of the body whorl.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Mauritius, Taiwan, Japan and Fiji.