Drillia ballista
Appearance
Drillia ballista | |
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Drawing of a shell of Drillia ballista | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Drilliidae |
Genus: | Drillia |
Species: | D. ballista
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Binomial name | |
Drillia ballista Von Maltzan, 1883 [1]
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Synonyms[2] | |
Pleurotoma ballista Paetel, 1888 |
Drillia ballista is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]
Description
[edit]The size of an adult shell varies between 11 mm and 22 mm. The shell is wax-yellow. It is narrowly sinuate with the anal sinus pretty deep.[3]
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa, Guinea
References
[edit]- ^ von Maltzan, H.F. (1883) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der senegambischen Pleurotomiden. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 10, 115–135, pl. 3.
- ^ a b Drillia ballista Von Maltzan, 1883. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 October 2011.
- ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 208; 1884
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295
External links
[edit]- "Drillia ballista". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.