''Drillia barkliensis'' is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Drilliidae.
Description
The
whorls are granulated minutely, with a tuberculated shoulder. The shell is chocolate- or orange-brown, the latter often white-banded above the shoulder, and sometimes with an inferior narrow darker band. The tubercles and usually the granules are white. The shell grows to a length of .
[ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 192; 1884]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off
Mauritius and in the Pacific Ocean off New Caledonia.
References
Adams, H. (1869) ''Descriptions of a new genus and fourteen new species of marine shells''. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1869, 272–275, pl. 19* Michel, C. (1988). ''Marine molluscs of Mauritius''. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
* Tucker J.K. (2004) ''Catalogue of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda).'' Zootaxa 682: 1–1295
External links
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Gastropods described in 1869