Drillia audax

Drillia audax
Drillia audax
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species: D. audax
Binomial name
Drillia audax
Melvill & Standen, 1903 [1]

Drillia audax is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]

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Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Gulf of Oman, found at a depth of 284 m.

References

  1. ^ Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. (1903) Descriptions of sixty-eight new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service, 1901–1903. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 7 12, 289–324, pls. 20–23.
  2. ^ Drillia audax Melvill & Standen, 1903.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433580 on 9 October 2011.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295

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