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Drillia ponciana Dall & Simpson, 1901

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Drilliidae »  genus Drillia

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Drillia ponciana

Author: Dall, W.H. & Simpson, C.T.

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Description

Shell small, solid, of a warm reddish brown, with the prominences of the sculpture paler, with one and a half smooth nepionic and six and a half subsequent sculptured whorls; a narrow, deep anal fasciole and reticulated sculpture of subequal axial and spiral threads minutely nodulous at the intersections; the spirals on the upper whorls increase from one to three between the sutures, and the posterior spiral is at first very marked; aperture as figured; pillar and throat deep reddish brown, outer lip heavy; notch short, subcircular.
Length, 6.5 mm; maximum diameter, 2.5 mm.
Playa de Ponce, Porto Rico.
Dall, W.H. & Simpson, C.T., 1901. The Mollusca of Porto Rico.
Author: Jan Delsing

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