Paradrillia lithoria

Paradrillia lithoria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae, the turrids.[1]

Paradrillia lithoria
Original image of a shell of Paradrillia lithoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Paradrillia
Species:
P. lithoria
Binomial name
Paradrillia lithoria
(Melvill & Standen, 1903)
Synonyms[1]

Drillia lithoria Melvill & Standen, 1903

Description

The length of the shell attains 8 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm.

This is a small highly coloured, fusiform species, with a conspicuous, spiral, swollen, nodulous angle just above the centre of the whorls. It contains eight whorls, of which two in the protoconch. The aperture has a square-ovate shape. The outer lip is thin. The sinus is wide but not deep. The siphonal canal is short.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Bahrein and in the Persian Gulf.

References

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