Drillia fraga
Appearance
Drillia fraga | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Drilliidae |
Genus: | Drillia |
Species: | D. fraga
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Binomial name | |
Drillia fraga H.B. Preston, 1908
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Drillia fraga is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 22 mm, its diameter 8 mm.
(Original description) The shell has an elongated fusiform shape. It is deep reddish brown. It contains 7 whorls, rather flat, sculptured with regular closely set rows of small white tubercles and bearing a single, infra-sutural row of coarser tubercles between which and the remaining smaller rows there is a broad but shallow groove. The sutures are impressed. The aperture is obliquely ovate. The siphonal canal is short.[1]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off the Andaman Islands
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- "Drillia fraga". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.