Paradrillia lithoria
Appearance
Paradrillia lithoria | |
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Original image of a shell of Paradrillia lithoria | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Horaiclavidae |
Genus: | Paradrillia |
Species: | P. lithoria
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Binomial name | |
Paradrillia lithoria (Melvill & Standen, 1903)
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Synonyms[1] | |
Drillia lithoria Melvill & Standen, 1903 |
Paradrillia lithoria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae, the turrids.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 8 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm.
This is a small highly coloured, fusiform species, with a conspicuous, spiral, swollen, nodulous angle just above the centre of the whorls. It contains eight whorls, of which two in the protoconch. The aperture has a square-ovate shape. The outer lip is thin. The sinus is wide but not deep. The siphonal canal is short.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off Bahrein and in the Persian Gulf.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Paradrillia lithoria (Melvill & Standen, 1903). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ Melvill & Standen (1903), Descriptions of 68 new gastropoda from the Red Sea, the Gulf of Oman and the Northern Arabian Sea; The Annals and magazine of natural history 7th ser. v. 12 (1903)