Drillia ballista

Drillia ballista
Drawing of Drillia ballista
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species: D. ballista
Binomial name
Drillia ballista
Von Maltzan, 1883 [1]
Synonyms

Pleurotoma ballista Paetel, 1888

Drillia ballista is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 11 mm and 22 mm. The shell is wax-yellow. It is narrowly sinuate with the anal sinus pretty deep. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa, Guinea

References

  1. von Maltzan, H.F. (1883) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der senegambischen Pleurotomiden. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 10, 115–135, pl. 3.
  2. Drillia ballista Von Maltzan, 1883.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 October 2011.
  3. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 208; 1884

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