Drillia fraga

Drillia fraga
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Drillia
Species:
D. fraga
Binomial name
Drillia fraga
H.B. Preston, 1908

Drillia fraga is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 22 mm, its diameter 8 mm.

(Original description) The shell has an elongated fusiform shape. It is deep reddish brown. It contains 7 whorls, rather flat, sculptured with regular closely set rows of small white tubercles and bearing a single, infra-sutural row of coarser tubercles between which and the remaining smaller rows there is a broad but shallow groove. The sutures are impressed. The aperture is obliquely ovate. The siphonal canal is short.[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Andaman Islands

References

  1. ^ a b Preston, H. B. "Descriptions of new species of land, marine and freshwater shells from the Andaman Islands." Records of the Indian Museum 2.2 (1908): 187–210
  • "Drillia fraga". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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