Drillia rosolina

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Drillia rosolina
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Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Drillia rosolina
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species:
D. rosolina
Binomial name
Drillia rosolina
(Marrat F.P., 1877) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Drillia (Clavus) rosolinaTryon, 1884
  • Clavus (Fenimorea) rosolinaNordsieck, 1977a
  • Pleurotoma (Drillia) rosolinaMarrat, 1877

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

Contents

The species was unsatisfactory described by Frederick Price Marrat (1820-1904) and he didn't provide an image. According to Powell (1966) this species is a synonym of Drillia rosacea (Reeve, 1845). [3]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 25 mm. This species resembles Drillia rosacea , but is obliquely ribbed, closely striated, and of uniform rose color. [4] The color, according to Philippe Dautzenberg, is variable and may also be whitish with a dark brown band on the body whorl. [5]

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Atlantic Ocean off Gabon.

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References

  1. ↑ Marrat, F.P. (1877) "A list of West Africa shells, including new Pleurotoma and Columbella". Quarterly Journal of Conchology, 1, 237–244.
  2. 1 2 Drillia rosolina (Marrat, 1877) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 19 October 2011.
  3. ↑ Powell, A.W.B. (1966) "The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with lists of characteristic species". Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 5, 1–184, 23 pls.
  4. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
  5. ↑ Dautzenberg (1910), Contribution à la faune malacologique de l'Afrique occidentale; Bordeaux :Y. Cadoret,1910 Archived 27 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine


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