Paradrillia lithoria explained

Paradrillia lithoria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae, the turrids.

Description

The length of the shell attains 8 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm.

This is a small highly coloured, fusiform species, with a conspicuous, spiral, swollen, nodulous angle just above the centre of the whorls. It contains eight whorls, of which two in the protoconch. The aperture has a square-ovate shape. The outer lip is thin. The sinus is wide but not deep. The siphonal canal is short.[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Bahrein and in the Persian Gulf.

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Notes and References

  1. https://archive.org/details/annalsmagazineof7121903lond Melvill & Standen (1903), Descriptions of 68 new gastropoda from the Red Sea, the Gulf of Oman and the Northern Arabian Sea; The Annals and magazine of natural history 7th ser. v. 12 (1903)