Paradrillia patruelis

Paradrillia patruelis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]

Paradrillia patruelis
Image of a shell of Paradrillia patruelis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Paradrillia
Species:
P. patruelis
Binomial name
Paradrillia patruelis
(Smith E. A., 1875)
Synonyms[1]
  • Vexitomina chinensis Ma, 1989
  • Clavatula patruelis (Smith E. A., 1875à
  • Pleurotoma patruelis Smith E. A., 1875

Description

The length of the shell attains 18 mm.

The reddish brown shell shows a white narrow band on the periphery, and, on the body whorl, a second inferior band. It contains 12½ whorls, with obsolete flexuous longitudinal plications, crossed by revolving lines. These are nodulous at the periphery, and less distinctly so inferiorly. The operculum has a subcentral nucleus.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Korea, the Philippines and off Réunion; in the Bohai Gulf and Yellow Sea.

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References

  • Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
  • "Paradrillia patruelis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Baoquan Li 李宝泉 & R.N. Kilburn, Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, 1966 (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas; Journal of Natural History 44(11):699–740 · March 2010; DOI: 10.1080/00222930903470086
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