Drillia euchroes

Drillia euchroes
	Original image of a shell of Drillia euchroes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Drillia
Species:	D. euchroes
Binomial name
	Drillia euchroes; Melvill, J.C., 1912
Synonyms
	Drillia euchroës Mevill J.C., 1912

Drillia euchroes is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Drilliidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 16 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.

A. brightly coloured species, in shape attenuate-fusiform. The shell contains 11 whorls, with a small, vitreous, bulbous protoconch. The remainder is suturally considerably impressed. The shell is straw-coloured with closely ranged spiral lirae of dark chestnut alternating with ochreous. In the centre of each whorl is a white spiral band, bringing into prominence the strongly modiiled ribs of the angle of the whorl. The aperture is oblong. The outer lip is thin.^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf.

References

^ ^a ^b Melvill, James Cosmo. "Descriptions of thirty-three new species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea." Journal of Molluscan Studies 10.3 (1912): 240–254.

Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295

External links

"Drillia euchroes". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

[Melvill-1] Melvill, James Cosmo. "Descriptions of thirty-three new species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea." Journal of Molluscan Studies 10.3 (1912): 240–254.

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