Microdrillia patricia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
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| Original drawing of a shell of Microdrillia patricia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Microdrillia |
| Species: | M. patricia
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| Binomial name | |
| Microdrillia patricia (Melvill, 1904)
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Description
editThe small, claviform shell has a maximum length of 6 mm and a width of 2.1 mm. The protoconch contains at least 6 whorls and the teleoconch 5½ convex whorls. The protoconch has 15–16 axial ribs on its penultimate whorl and 21 to 24 ribs on its last whorl. The collabral threads are strong. On the base of the body whorl one can see 7 to 9 spiral lirae. The aperture is oblong. The siphonal canal is short.[2][3]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs from the Gulf of Oman to continental shelf of Western Transkei, South Africa
References
edit- ^ a b WoRMS (2015). Microdrillia patricia (Melvill, 1904). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434406 on 2016-03-17
- ^ R.N. Kilburn, Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 3. Subfamily Borsoniinae; Annals of the Natal Museum, 1986 - reference.sabinet.co.za
- ^ Melvill, J. C. 1904. Description of 28 species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Arabian Sea dredged by F. W. Townsend, 1900–04. Proc. malac. Soc. London. 6(3): 159–169
External links
edit- "Microdrillia patricia". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308