Iredalea pygmaea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Iredalea pygmaea (Dunker, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=762256 on 2023-09-17
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.G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (described as Mangilia pygmaea)
Distribution This marine species occurs off Mauritius, Taiwan, Japan and Fiji.
References
Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
External links
Dunker, W. (1860). Neue japanische Mollusken. Malakozoologische Blätter. 6: 221-240 Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.