Drillia fraga
| Drillia fraga | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Drillia |
| Species: | D. fraga |
| Binomial name | |
| Drillia fraga H.B. Preston, 1908 | |
Drillia fraga is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
Description
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
This marine species occurs off the Andaman Islands
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