''Paradrillia gemmata'' 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

Horaiclavidae Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. In 2011 this family was split off from the family Pseudomelatomidae (formerly the subfamily Crassispirinae McLean, 1971) by Bouchet P., Ka ...

Description

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off the Northern Territory.

References

* Shuto, T. 1983. ''New turrid taxa from the Australian waters''. Memoirs of the Faculty of Sciences of Kyushu University, Series D, Geology 25: 1–26

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295

Biolib.cz: image of a shell of ''Paradrillia gemmata''

gemmata ''Gemmata obscuriglobus'' is a species of Gram-negative, aerobic, heterotrophic bacteria of the phylum Planctomycetota. ''G. obscuriglobus'' occur in freshwater habitats and was first described in 1984, and is the only described species in its g ...

Gastropods described in 1983 Gastropods of Australia {{Horaiclavidae-stub