Drillia amblytera
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| Original image of a shell of Drillia amblytera | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Drillia |
| Species: | D. amblytera
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| Binomial name | |
| Drillia amblytera (K.J. Bush, 1893)
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Drillia amblytera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]
Description
The length of the shell attains 15 mm, its diameter 6 mm.
(Original description) The shell consistsof eight whorls, rather thick, of a light yellow color, sometimes banded with reddish brown. The posterior sinus is nearly round, situated just below the suture. It has, in the best developed specimen, a thin, sharp edge rising a little above the surface of the shell, bending decidedly backward, then curving and nearly meeting in front. The outer lip rounds gradually to near the anterior end of the aperture, where it is slightly contracted, making a short, broad siphonal canal, then twisting abruptly backward produces a decided notch before joining the columella. A conspicuous varix is formed hy the thickening of the last rib, beyond which the outer lip is thin, white, and sharp-edged. There is a prominent, tooth-like projection on the interior of the aperture, at the end of the varix, more conspicuous in some specimens than in others, and seen best in an end view. The interior of the aperture and inner lip is white. The columella is straight, with a conspicuous layer of enamel having a thin, free edge. The suture is distinct and undulating. The subsutural band is very narrow, concave, lapping well on the preceding whorl. Prominent, strong, oblique, rounded ribs, nine on the body whorl, separated by concave spaces of about the same width, cross the whorls from suture to suture, faintly defined on the subsutural band, and most prominent just below it. On the body whorl, these gradually fade away at the base of the siphon, and appear on the canal as conspicuous, much curved lines of growth. Microscopic strife intersects the fine lines of growth, giving to the entire surface of the shell a peculiar crinkled appearance. The protoconch is broad, blunt, smooth, somewhat shining, consisting of two and a half turns. The apical whorl is large, rising very little above the succeeding one. [3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and has been found off Charleston, South Carolina, off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina at depths between 136 m and 258m.
References
- ^ Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
- ^ Drillia amblytera (Bush, 1893). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 October 2011.
- ^ Bush, K.J. (1893) Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877–1878), and in the Caribbean Sea (1879–80), and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States (1880), by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer “Blake”, Lieut. Commander C. D. Sigsbee, U. S. N., and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., commanding. XXXIV. Report on the Mollusca dredged by the “Blake” in 1880, including descriptions of several new species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 23, 199–244
- Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp
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