Drillia euchroes

Drillia euchroes
Original image of a shell of Drillia euchroes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Drilliidae
Genus:Drillia
Species: D. euchroes
Binomial name
Drillia euchroes
Melvill, J.C., 1912
Synonyms

Drillia euchroës Mevill J.C., 1912

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 16 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.

A. brightly coloured species, in shape attenuate-fusiform. The shell contains 11 whorls, with a small, vitreous, bulbous protoconch. The remainder is suturally considerably impressed. The shell is straw-coloured with closely ranged spiral lirae of dark chestnut alternating with ochreous. In the centre of each whorl is a white spiral band, bringing into prominence the strongly modiiled ribs of the angle of the whorl. The aperture is oblong. The outer lip is thin.[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf.

References

  1. 1 2 Melvill, James Cosmo. "Descriptions of thirty-three new species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea." Journal of Molluscan Studies 10.3 (1912): 240-254.

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