Paradrillia Explained

Paradrillia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Horaiclavidae.

Species

Species within the genus Paradrillia include:

• Paradrillia agalma (Smith E. A., 1906)
• Paradrillia alluaudi (Dautzenberg, 1932)
• Paradrillia consimilis (Smith E. A., 1879)
• Paradrillia convexiuscula T. Shuto, 1961
• Paradrillia dainichiensis (Yokoyama, 1923)
• Paradrillia darnleyensis Shuto, 1983
• Paradrillia felix (Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971)
• Paradrillia fugata (E.A. Smith, 1895)
• Paradrillia gemmata Shuto, 1983
• Paradrillia himea Makiyama, 1927
• Paradrillia inconstans (Smith E. A., 1875)
• Paradrillia kakegawensis Makiyama, 1927
• Paradrillia lithoria (Melvill & Standen, 1903)
• Paradrillia melvilli Powell, 1969
• Paradrillia minoensis Shuto, 1961
• Paradrillia nannodes (Sturany, 1900) (synonym: Pleurotoma (Surcula) nannodes Sturany, 1900) ^[1]
• Paradrillia nivalioides (Yokoyama, M., 1920)
• Paradrillia patruelis (Smith E. A., 1875)
• Paradrillia rougeyroni (Souverbie, 1874)
• Paradrillia sagamiana Okutani, 1964
• Paradrillia sultana (Thiele, 1925)
• Paradrillia taiwanensis Nomura, 1935

Species brought into synonymy:

• Paradrillia (Paradrillia) coxi (Angas, 1867): synonym of Vexitomina coxi (Angas, 1867)
• Paradrillia agnewi Tenison-Woods, 1879: synonym of Vexitomina coxi (Angas, 1867)
• Paradrillia asamusiensis Nomura & Zinbo, 1940: synonym of Paradrillia inconstans (Smith, 1875)
• Paradrillia celebensis (Schepman, M.M., 1913): synonym of Benthomangelia celebensis (Schepman, 1913)
• Paradrillia dainitiensis Makiyama, 1922: synonym of Paradrillia consimilis (Smith, 1879)
• Paradrillia gaylordae Preston, 1905: synonym of Paradrillia inconstans prunulum (Melvill & Standen, 1901)
• Paradrillia pilazona Laseron, 1954 : synonym of Vexitomina torquata Laseron, 1954
• Paradrillia reticulata Kuroda, 1953: synonym of Iwaoa reticulata Kuroda, 1953

References

• Smith, E.A. 1875. A list of the Gasteropoda collected in Japanese seas by Commander H.C. St. John, R.N. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 15: 414-427
• Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1901. The Mollusca of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian Sea, as evidenced mainly through the collections of Mr. F.W. Townsend, 1893-1900; with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901(ii): 327-460 pls
• Preston, H.B. 1905. Descriptions of new species of marine shells from Ceylon. Journal of Malacology 12(1): 1-8
• Makiyama, 1940 [the Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 47: 133 * Habe, T. 1961. ''Coloured illustrations of shells of Japan''. Osaka, Japan : Hoikusha 82 pp., 66 pls. * Powell, A.W.B. 1969. ''The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae''. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207-415, pls 188-324 * Shuto, T. 1983. ''New turrid taxa from the Australian waters.'' Memoirs of the Faculty of Sciences of Kyushu University, Series D, Geology 25: 1-26 * Taylor, J.D., Kantor, Y.I. & Sysoev, A.V. 1993. ''Foregut anatomy, feeding mechanisms, relationships and classification of the Conoidea (=Toxoglossa) (Gastropoda).'' Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 59: 125-170 ==External links== * [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/HtmFamily/HORAICLAVIDAELS.htm Worldwide Mollusca Species Data Base: Horaiclavidae]
• Japan Paleobiology Database: Paradrillia

Notes and References

1. https://zse.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=10039&display_type=element&element_type=2&element_id=124&element_name= Albano, Paolo G., et al. "An illustrated catalogue of Rudolf Sturany’s type specimens in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria (NHMW): Red Sea gastropods." Zoosystematics and Evolution 93 (2017): 45.