Drillia barkliensis

Drillia barkliensis
Drawing of Drillia barkliensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Drillia
Species:	D. barkliensis
Binomial name
Drillia barkliensis H. Adams, 1869 [1]
Synonyms[2]
Brachytoma barkliensis Gravely, 1942 Drillia strigata G. B. Sowerby II, 1874 Pleurotoma (Crassispira) barklyensis von Martens, 1880 Pleurotoma barclayana Paetel, 1888

Drillia barkliensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.^[3]

Tucker (2004) sees it as a synonym of Drillia rougeyroni (Souverbie in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1874). ^[2] According to the World Register of Marine Species, Drillia barkliensis is a species that needs further investigation (species inquerenda). ^[3].

Description

The whorls are granulated minutely, with a tuberculated shoulder. The shell is chocolate- or orange-brown, the latter often white-banded above the shoulder, and sometimes with an inferior narrow darker band. The tubercles and usually the granules are white. The shell grows to a length of 25 mm. ^[4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius and in the Pacific Ocean off New Caledonia.

References

1. ^ Adams, H. (1869) Descriptions of a new genus and fourteen new species of marine shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1869, 272–275, pl. 19.
2. ^ ^{a b} Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682 p.110.
3. ^ ^{a b} Drillia barkliensis .  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215579 on 5 April 2010.
4. ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 192; 1884

• Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius

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