Drillia philotima
Species of gastropod
| Drillia philotima | |
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| Original image of a shell of Drillia philotima | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Drillia |
| Species: | D. philotima |
| Binomial name | |
| Drillia philotima Melvill, J.C. & R. Standen, 1903 | |
Drillia philotima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
Description
The size of an adult shell attains 30 mm, its diameter 8 mm.
The attenuated, grayish-white shell has a fusiform shape. It contains 11 whorls, of which two in the protoconch. These two apical whorls are vitreous and dark. The other whorls are convex and crossed by oblique, symmetrically arranged ribs. There are only few in the upper whorls, but numerous (up to fifteen) and of a brown color in the penultimate whorl and in the body whorl They are crossed by transverse nodulose lirations. There is no beading at the sutures. The body whorl shows a dorsal varix close to the outer lip. The long, narrow aperture is white on the interior. The outer lip is slightly effuse and distinctly sinuous. The siphonal canal is wide and short. The columella is straight. .[1]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Persian Gulf.
References
- ^ a b 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)
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295
External links
- "Drillia philotoma". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
