Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Clade Hypsogastropoda Scientific name Paradrillia patruelis | Phylum Mollusca Clade Caenogastropoda Clade Neogastropoda Rank Species | |
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Paradrillia patruelis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.
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Description
The length of the shell attains 18 mm.
The reddish brown shell shows a white narrow band on the periphery, and, on the body whorl, a second inferior band. It contains 12½ whorls, with obsolete flexuous longitudinal plications, crossed by revolving lines. These are nodulous at the periphery, and less distinctly so inferiorly. The operculum has a subcentral nucleus.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Korea, the Philippines and off Réunion
References
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