Psittacodrillia diversa

Psittacodrillia diversa
Shell of Psittacodrillia diversa (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Psittacodrillia
Species: P. diversa
Binomial name
Psittacodrillia diversa
(Smith E. A., 1882)
Synonyms[1]
  • Crassispira diversa (E. A. Smith, 1882)
  • Drillia diversa (E. A. Smith, 1882)
  • Drillia sowerbyi (non Turton, 1932); Barnard, 1959
  • Pleurotoma (Clionella) diversa G.B. Sowerby III, 1892
  • Pleurotoma (Clavus) diversa Smith E. A., 1882

Psittacodrillia diversa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 14 mm, its diameter 5.5 mm.

The biconic-claviform shell has about two whorls in the protoconch and five weakly convex whorls in the teleoconch. The shell shows 10 to 12 axial ribs on the early whorls and 9 to 11 on the penultimate whorl. The ribs only occupy the lower two thirds of the whorl, the remainder being simple. The spiral striation is fine; that towards the base of the body whorl is a trifle coarser. The aperture is oblong. The siphonal canal is wide. The columella is slightly convex and has a moderately thick callus. The shell is orange-red with darker red spots in the intervals on the whorls. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Jeffrey's Bay - East Cape, South Africa

References

  1. 1 2 Psittacodrillia diversa (Smith E. A., 1882).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 July 2012.
  2. ↑ Smith, E.A. (1882) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5, 10, 206–218

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