Paradrillia patruelis

Paradrillia patruelis
Image of a shell of Paradrillia patruelis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Horaiclavidae
Genus:Paradrillia
Species: P. patruelis
Binomial name
Paradrillia patruelis
(Smith E. A., 1875)
Synonyms[1]
  • Vexitomina chinensis Ma, 1989
  • Clavatula patruelis (Smith E. A., 1875à
  • Pleurotoma patruelis Smith E. A., 1875

Paradrillia patruelis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 18 mm.

The reddish brown shell shows a white narrow band on the periphery, and, on the body whorl, a second inferior band. It contains 12½ whorls, with obsolete flexuous longitudinal plications, crossed by revolving lines. These are nodulous at the periphery, and less distinctly so inferiorly. The operculum has a subcentral nucleus.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Korea, the Philippines and off Réunion

References

  1. 1 2 Paradrillia patruelis (Smith E. A., 1875).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (described as Clavatula patruelis)
  • Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.

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