Drillia ballista

Drillia ballista
Drawing of a shell of Drillia ballista
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species:
D. ballista
Binomial name
Drillia ballista
Von Maltzan, 1883 [1]
Synonyms[2]

Pleurotoma ballista Paetel, 1888

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

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. ^ a b Drillia ballista Von Maltzan, 1883. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species 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
  • "Drillia ballista". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


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