Drillia corusca

Drillia corusca
Drawing of a shell of Drillia corusca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Drillia
Species:	D. corusca
Binomial name
Drillia corusca (Reeve, 1843)
Synonyms
Drillia corruscaBöttger, O., 1895 Turris (Drillia) coruscaReeve, 1843

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

Description

The shell has a rather pyramidal shape. It is highly polished. The upper portion of the whorls are flat, clouded with reddish brown and white. The lower portion are more prominent, encircled with a row of irregular reddish brown dots. The body whorl is encircled with two rows of dots. The aperture is short. The siphonal canal is very short.

The shell differs much from the ordinary type of Drillia, the form being more like a Daphnella . ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines.

References

1. Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences

• Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1843)
• Boettger, O. "Die marinen Mollusken der Philippinen (IV) nach den Sammlungen des Herrn JOSÉ FLORENCIO QUADRA in Manila. IV. Die Pleurotomiden." Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 27 (1895): 41–63.