Drillia ballista

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Drillia ballista
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Drawing of a shell of Drillia ballista
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species:
D. ballista
Binomial name
Drillia ballista
Von Maltzan, 1883 [1]
Synonyms [2]

Pleurotoma ballistaPaetel, 1888

Drillia ballista is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. [2]

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 11 mm and 22 mm. The shell is wax-yellow. It is narrowly sinuate with the anal sinus pretty deep. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa, Guinea

References

  1. ↑ von Maltzan, H.F. (1883) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der senegambischen Pleurotomiden. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 10, 115–135, pl. 3.
  2. 1 2 Drillia ballista Von Maltzan, 1883 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 October 2011.
  3. ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 208; 1884


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