Drillia ballista

Drillia ballista
Drillia ballista
Drawing of Drillia ballista
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species: D. ballista
Binomial name
Drillia ballista
Von Maltzan, 1883 [1]
Synonyms

Pleurotoma ballista Paetel, 1888

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

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Description

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

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa, Guinea

References

  1. ^ von Maltzan, H.F. (1883) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der senegambischen Pleurotomiden. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 10, 115–135, pl. 3.
  2. ^ Drillia ballista Von Maltzan, 1883.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433581 on 9 October 2011.
  3. ^ 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

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