Drillia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.

General characteristics

The shell is turriculated, with an elevated spire, longitudinal ribs, and usually revolving striae. The spiral sculpture of the shell is rather smooth or shows a wide spacing of incised lines. The body whorl is usually short. The columella has a posterior callus. The outer lip is thick, but not varicose, nor dentate within, flexuous, with a well-marked posterior anal sinus near (but not reaching) the suture, and an anterior constriction or sinuosity. The siphonal canal is short, curved and usually narrow. Some species show an interrupted pink banding.

The animal has tentacles approaching at their bases and eyes near their extremities.

Species

Species within the genus Drillia include:

Nomen dubium

  • Drillia signa Bartsch, 1915

Species inquirenda

  • Drillia ganjamensis Preston, 1910
  • Drillia mariesi Melvill & Standen, 1897

Nomen nudum

  • Drillia alata H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853

Species brought into synonymy

  • Cossmann (M.), 1896 Mollusques éocèniques de la Loire-Inférieure. Tome 1, fascicule 2. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest de la France, t. 6, vol. 4, p. 180-246
  • Cossmann (M.), 1896 Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée (2ème livraison), p. 1-179
  • Cossmann (M.), 1919 Supplément aux mollusques éocèniques de la Loire-Inférieure. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest de la France, sér. 3, t. 5, p. 53-141
  • Lamy, Ed., 1934. Coquilles marines recueillies par M. E. Aubert de Rüe dans l'Amérique du Sud. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle 6: 432-435
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
  • Tippett, D.L. (2006), Taxonomic notes on some Indo-Pacific and West African Drillia species (Conoidea: Drilliidae) = Notas taxonómicas sobre unas especies de Drillia del Indo-Pacifico y África occidental (Conoidea: Drilliidae); Iberus: Revista de la Sociedad Espänola de Malacología 24(1): 13-21

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