Drillia barkliensis

Species of gastropod

Drillia barkliensis

Drawing of a shell of Drillia barkliensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Drillia
Species:	D. barkliensis
Binomial name
*Drillia barkliensis* H. Adams, 1869
Synonyms^[1]
Brachytoma barkliensis Gravely, 1942 Crassispira barkliensis (Adams, H.G., 1869) Crassispira strigata Sowerby II, 1874 Drillia rougeyroni (Souverbie in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1874) Drillia strigata G. B. Sowerby II, 1874 Pleurotoma (Crassispira) barklyensis von Martens, 1880 Pleurotoma barclayana Paetel, 1888 Turridrupa barkliensis H. Adams, 1869

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

Description

The whorls are granulated minutely, with a tuberculated shoulder. The shell is chocolate- or orange-brown, the latter often white-banded above the shoulder, and sometimes with an inferior narrow darker band. The tubercles and usually the granules are white. The shell grows to a length of 25 mm (0.98 in).^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius and in the Pacific Ocean off New Caledonia.

References

^ ^a ^b Drillia barkliensis. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 March 2012.
^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 192; 1884

Adams, H. (1869) Descriptions of a new genus and fourteen new species of marine shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1869, 272–275, pl. 19
Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
Tucker J.K. (2004) Catalogue of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295