Biology:Drillia euchroes

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Drillia euchroes
Drillia euchroes 001.jpg
Original image of a shell of Drillia euchroes
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species:
D. euchroes
Binomial name
Drillia euchroes
Melvill, J.C., 1912
Synonyms

Drillia euchroës Mevill J.C., 1912

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 16 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.

A. brightly coloured species, in shape attenuate-fusiform. The shell contains 11 whorls, with a small, vitreous, bulbous protoconch. The remainder is suturally considerably impressed. The shell is straw-coloured with closely ranged spiral lirae of dark chestnut alternating with ochreous. In the centre of each whorl is a white spiral band, bringing into prominence the strongly modiiled ribs of the angle of the whorl. The aperture is oblong. The outer lip is thin.[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Melvill, James Cosmo. "Descriptions of thirty-three new species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea." Journal of Molluscan Studies 10.3 (1912): 240–254.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q28232146 entry