Drillia barkliensis
| Drillia barkliensis | |
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| Drawing of Drillia barkliensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Drillia |
| Species: | D. barkliensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Drillia barkliensis H. Adams, 1869 [1] | |
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Drillia barkliensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]
Description
The whorls are granulated minutely, with a tuberculated shoulder. The shell is chocolate- or orange-brown, the latter often white-banded above the shoulder, and sometimes with an inferior narrow darker band. The tubercles and usually the granules are white. The shell grows to a length of 25 mm. [3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius and in the Pacific Ocean off New Caledonia.
References
- ↑ Adams, H. (1869) Descriptions of a new genus and fourteen new species of marine shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1869, 272–275, pl. 19.
- ↑ Drillia barkliensis . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 March 2012.
- ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 192; 1884
- Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
- Tucker J.K. (2004) Catalogue of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1-1295
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