''Suavodrillia declivis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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Borsoniidae Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Borsoniidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.o ...

Description

The shell is multicarinate with a few, strong carinae. The siphonal canal is somewhat more produced and narrowed. The anal sinus is shallow. The

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is not plicate. The color of the shell is light reddish fulvous.

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, Manual of Conchology vol. VI, p. 170; 1884

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Japan.

References

* Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda).'' Zootaxa 682:1–1295. declivis Gastropods described in 1880 {{Borsoniidae-stub