Drillia barkliensis explained

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

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 .^[1]

Distribution

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

References

• 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
• Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
• Tucker J.K. (2004) Catalogue of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295

Notes and References

1. [George Washington Tryon]