Drillia inchoata

Drillia inchoata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Drillia
Species:	D. inchoata
Binomial name
Drillia inchoata (Sturany, 1900)
Synonyms
Clavus inchoatus(Sturany, 1903) Pleurotoma (Drillia) inchoataSturany, 1900 superseded combination Pleurotoma inchoataSturany, 1900 (original combination)

Drillia inchoata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. ^{[1] [2]}

Description

The height of the shell is 21.3 mm, and the width is 9.0 mm; the height of the aperture is 9.1 mm.

(Original description in German) The shell is truncated and spindle-shaped, with a light yellow color. It consists of 9 1/2 whorls, each of which, except for the protoconch, is concave in its upper half and convex in its lower half. The shell is equipped with numerous spiral ridges and approximately 15 to 16 wavy transverse ribs. Additionally, there are microscopically fine growth lines between the transverse ribs. Immediately before the (unfortunately poorly preserved) aperture, there is a knobby swollen transverse rib that is projected to the right. ^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea.

References

1. Drillia inchoata (Sturany, 1900) . 5 November 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295
3. Sturany R (1904) Expedition S.M. Schiff "Pola“ in das Rothe Meer, nördliche und südliche Hälfte. 1895/96 und 1897/98. Zoologische Ergebnisse XXIII. Gastropoden des Rothen Meeres. Denkschr. mathem-naturwiss Cl k Akad Wissensch Wien 74:209–283, pls 1–7 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

External links

• "Drillia inchoata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Janssen, Ronald, and Marco Taviani. "Taxonomic, ecological and historical considerations on the deep-water benthic mollusc fauna of the Red Sea." The Red Sea. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015. 511-529.
• Albano, P. G.; Bakker, P. A. J.; Janssen, R.; Eschner, A. (2017). "An illustrated catalogue of Rudolf Sturany's type specimens in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria (NHMW): Red Sea gastropods". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 93 (1).