Drillia dives

Drillia dives
Original image of a shell of Drillia dives
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species: D. dives
Binomial name
Drillia dives
Melvill, J.C. & R. Standen, 1903

Drillia dives is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Description

The length of this shell attains 23 mm, its diameter 5 mm.

The slender, fusiform, delicate shell has a white-gray color. It contains ten whorls of which three in the protoconch. These are brown and completely hyaline. The other whorls are impressed in the suture and ventricose. Eleven longitudinally oblique ribs run as deep as the body whorl. They are spirally striate, above and next to the sutures. The aperture is oblong. The lip is slightly thickened. The anal sinus is wide but not deep. The siphonal canal is short. [1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf; the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea

References

  1. 1 2 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)
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