Drillia barkliensis

Drillia barkliensis
Drawing of a shell of Drillia barkliensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Drillia
Species:	D. barkliensis
Binomial name
Drillia barkliensis H. Adams, 1869
Synonyms [1]
Brachytoma barkliensisGravely, 1942 Crassispira barkliensis(Adams, H.G., 1869) Crassispira strigataSowerby II, 1874 Drillia rougeyroni(Souverbie in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1874) Drillia strigataG. B. Sowerby II, 1874 Pleurotoma (Crassispira) barklyensisvon Martens, 1880 Pleurotoma barclayanaPaetel, 1888 Turridrupa barkliensisH. Adams, 1869

Drillia barkliensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. ^[1]

Description

The whorls are granulated minutely, with a tuberculated shoulder. The shell is chocolate- or orange-brown, the latter often white-banded above the shoulder, and sometimes with an inferior narrow darker band. The tubercles and usually the granules are white. The shell grows to a length of 25 mm (0.98 in). ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius and in the Pacific Ocean off New Caledonia.

References

1. Drillia barkliensis . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 19 March 2012.
2. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 192; 1884

• Adams, H. (1869) Descriptions of a new genus and fourteen new species of marine shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1869, 272–275, pl. 19
• Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
• Tucker J.K. (2004) Catalogue of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295

External links

• "Crassispira barkliensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.