Description
The shell is rather thin, turreted, longitudinally obliquely ribbed and crossed by revolving lines. The color of the shell is yellowish white to brown, the lighter-colored specimens sometimes indistinctly broadly fasciated with brown. Its length is 65 mm and its diameter 20 mm. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 177; 1884 (described as ''Drillia flavidula'')Distribution
This marine species is found in the Red Sea ; off the Philippines,References
* Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. ''Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres.'' Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp * Reeve, L.A. 1843. ''Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma. pls 1–18'' in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 1. * Martin, K. 1895. ''Die Fossilien von Java auf Grund einer Sammlung von Dr. R.D.M. Verbeek''. Sammlung des Geologischen Reichsmuseums in Leiden 1(2): 1–132, pls 1–20 * Grant, U.S. (IV) & Gale, H.R. 1931. ''Catalogue of the marine Pliocene and Pleistocene mollusca of California and adjacent regions with notes on their morphology, classification, and nomenclature and a special treatment of the Pectinidae and the Turridae (including a few Miocene and Recent species).'' Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History 1: 1–1036, pl. 1–32 * Oostingh, C.H. 1939. ''Die Mollusken des Pliocaens von Sued-Bantam in Java''. Publications of the Mijnbouw in Nederlandsch-Indië. Geological Magazine 6(12): 163–187, pls 14–16 * Yen, T.C. 1942. ''A review of the Chinese gastropods in the British Museum.'' Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 24(5/6): 170–290 * Hinton, A. 1972. ''Shells of New Guinea and the Central Indo-Pacific''. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. * Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. ''Shells of the Philippines''. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. * Vine, P. (1986). ''Red Sea Invertebrates''. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. * Kosuge, S. 1992. ''Report on the family Turridae collected along the north-western coast of Australia (Gastropoda).'' Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 2(10): pls 58–59, text figs 1–24 * Wells, F.E. 1994. ''A revision of the Recent Australian species of the turrid genera Inquisitor and Ptychobela''. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 15: 71–102 * Wilson, B. 1994. ''Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods.'' Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. * Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. ''Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan''. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp.External links
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