Paradrillia fugata

Species of gastropod

Paradrillia fugata
Original image of a shell of Paradrillia fugata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Paradrillia
Species:
P. fugata
Binomial name
Paradrillia fugata
(E.A. Smith, 1895)
Synonyms[1]

Drillia fugata E. A. Smith, 1895

Paradrillia fugata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae, the turrids.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 45 mm, its diameter 14 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off East India, in the Andaman Sea and off Sri Lanka at bathyal depths (1271 m – 2569 m).

References

  1. ^ a b Sartori, André F. (2015). Paradrillia fugata (E.A. Smith, 1895). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=766731 on 2017-02-14
  • Smith, E.A., 1895. Natural History Notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer 'Investigator', Commander C.F. Oldham, R.N.- Series 2. No. 19. Report upon some Mollusca dredged in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea during the season 1893–94.. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 16:1–19, plates 1, 2
  • Subba Rao, N.V. (2003) Indian Seashells (Part 1) Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper, 192, x + 416 pp., 96 pls. NIZT 682
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
Taxon identifiers
Paradrillia fugata


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