Drillia barkliensis

Drillia barkliensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Drillia barkliensis
Drawing of a shell of Drillia barkliensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species:
D. barkliensis
Binomial name
Drillia barkliensis
H. Adams, 1869
Synonyms[1]
  • Brachytoma barkliensis Gravely, 1942
  • Crassispira barkliensis (Adams, H.G., 1869)
  • Crassispira strigata Sowerby II, 1874
  • Drillia rougeyroni (Souverbie in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1874)
  • Drillia strigata G. B. Sowerby II, 1874
  • Pleurotoma (Crassispira) barklyensis von Martens, 1880
  • Pleurotoma barclayana Paetel, 1888

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 25 mm (0.98 in).[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius and in the Pacific Ocean off New Caledonia.

References

  1. Drillia barkliensis . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 March 2012.
  2. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 192; 1884
  • "Crassispira barkliensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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