Drillia aquatilis

Drillia aquatilis
Drawing of a shell of Drillia aquatilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Drilliidae
Genus:Drillia
Species: D. aquatilis
Binomial name
Drillia aquatilis
(Reeve, L.A., 1845)
Synonyms

Pleurotoma (Drillia) aquatilis Reeve L.A., 1845

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

Description

The solid shell is ovately turreted with an acuminated spire. The whorls are smooth, depressed round the upper part, obliquely plicately tubercled. The siphonal canal is very short. The anal sinus is large. The color of the shell is ivory-white, painted with bands of extremely fine pale horny brown waved lines.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences


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