Austrodrillia beraudiana

Austrodrillia beraudiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Horaiclavidae
Genus:	Austrodrillia
Species:	A. beraudiana
Binomial name
	Austrodrillia beraudiana; (Crosse, 1863)
Synonyms
	Drillia beraudiana (Crosse, 1863); Drillia taeniata J.E. Tenison-Woods, 1878; Pleurotoma beraudiana Crosse, 1863;

Austrodrillia beraudiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae. ^[1]

It was previously categorized within the family Turridae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 17 mm.

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales (Clarence River), southernTasmania and Victoria.

^ ^a ^b ^c WoRMS (2015). Austrodrillia beraudiana (Crosse, 1863). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433082 on 2016-09-20

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Angas, G.F. 1867. A list of species of marine Mollusca found in Port Jackson harbour, New South Wales, and on the adjacent coasts, with notes on their habits, etc. Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 185-233
Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. On some new Tasmanian marine shells. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1878: 32-40
Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
May, W.L. 1923. An Illustrated Index of Tasmanian Shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp.
Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1-56, pls 1-12.
Wells, F.E. 1990. Revision of the recent Australian Turridae referred to the genera Splendrillia and Austrodrillia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 11: 73-117
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.

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