Clathrodrillia paria
| Clathrodrillia paria | |
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| Drawing of Clathrodrillia paria | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Clathrodrillia |
| Species: | C. paria |
| Binomial name | |
| Clathrodrillia paria (Reeve, 1846) | |
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Clathrodrillia paria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1] [2]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 27 mm. The shell is obsoletely channeled above the periphery which is not prominently angulated. The longitudinal ribs are numerous, rounded, not prominent, not interrupted on the periphery but continuous to the suture, The shell is sometimes obsoletely spirally striated. The back of the body whorl has a peculiar hump or longitudinal varix. The shell is yellowish white, banded and maculated with yellowish or orange-brown. [3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean along the Bahamas and from Florida to Brazil.
References
- 1 2 Clathrodrillia paria (Reeve, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 September 2011.
- ↑ P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
- ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 189; 1884 (described as Drillia fugata)
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