Drillia fraga explained

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.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Andaman Islands

References

Notes and References

  1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109280#page/265/mode/1up 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