Drillia audax

Drillia audax
Original image of a shell of Drillia audax
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Drilliidae
Genus:Drillia
Species: D. audax
Binomial name
Drillia audax
Melvill & Standen, 1903

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 9.25 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm.

A little whitish species of oblong fusiform shape and of bold contour. It is very distinct in both sculpture and painting of the spiral straw-coloured lirae surrounding the 7 whorls, which are not costulate. One spiral lira, acute and prominent, is especially noticeable at the base of each whorl, just above the sutures.The aperture is ovate-oblong with a distinctive wide sinus. The siphonal canal is wide and very short.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Gulf of Oman, found at a depth of 284 m.

References

  1. ↑ Drillia audax Melvill & Standen, 1903.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 October 2011.
  2. ↑ Melvill & Standen (1903), Descriptions of 68 new gastropoda from the Red Sea, the Gulf of Oman and the Northern Arabian Sea; The Annals and magazine of natural history 7th ser. v. 12 (1903)

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