Paradrillia patruelis

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| taxon =Paradrillia patruelis

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| image_caption = Image of a shell of Paradrillia patruelis

| authority = (Smith E. A., 1875)

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  • Vexitomina chinensis Ma, 1989
  • Clavatula patruelis (Smith E. A., 1875à
  • Pleurotoma patruelis Smith E. A., 1875

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Paradrillia patruelis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.{{WRMS species|434576|Paradrillia patruelis (Smith E. A., 1875)||4 April 2010}}

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.[https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences] (described as Clavatula patruelis)

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Korea, the Philippines and off Réunion; in the Bohai Gulf and Yellow Sea.

References

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  • Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.