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Drillia audax | |
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Original image of a shell of Drillia audax | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Drilliidae |
Genus: | Drillia |
Species: | D. audax |
Binomial name | |
Drillia audax Melvill & Standen, 1903 | |
Drillia audax is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. [1]
The length of the shell attains 9.25 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm.
A little whitish species of oblong fusiform shape and of bold contour. It is very distinct in both sculpture and painting of the spiral straw-coloured lirae surrounding the 7 whorls, which are not costulate. One spiral lira, acute and prominent, is especially noticeable at the base of each whorl, just above the sutures. The aperture is ovate-oblong with a distinctive wide sinus. The siphonal canal is wide and very short. [2]
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Gulf of Oman, found at a depth of 284 m.
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