Biology:Drillia fraga
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Short description: Species of gastropod
| Drillia fraga | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Drillia |
| Species: | D. fraga
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| Binomial name | |
| Drillia fraga H.B. Preston, 1908
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Drillia fraga is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 22 mm, its diameter 8 mm.
(Original description) The shell has an elongated fusiform shape. It is deep reddish brown. It contains 7 whorls, rather flat, sculptured with regular closely set rows of small white tubercles and bearing a single, infra-sutural row of coarser tubercles between which and the remaining smaller rows there is a broad but shallow groove. The sutures are impressed. The aperture is obliquely ovate. The siphonal canal is short.[1]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Andaman Islands
References
External links
- "Drillia fraga" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/5/Shell_42065.shtml.
Wikidata ☰ Q27898923 entry
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