Drillia audax is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
| Drillia audax | |
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| Original image of a shell of Drillia audax | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Drillia |
| Species: | D. audax
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| Binomial name | |
| Drillia audax Melvill & Standen, 1903
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 9.25 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm.
A little whitish species of oblong fusiform shape and of bold contour. It is very distinct in both sculpture and painting of the spiral straw-coloured lirae surrounding the 7 whorls, which are not costulate. One spiral lira, acute and prominent, is especially noticeable at the base of each whorl, just above the sutures. The aperture is ovate-oblong with a distinctive wide sinus. The siphonal canal is wide and very short.[2]
Distribution edit
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Gulf of Oman, found at a depth of 284 m.
References edit
- ^ a b Drillia audax Melvill & Standen, 1903. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 October 2011.
- ^ 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)
- M.M. Schepman, Full text of "Siboga expeditie"
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295