Paradrillia lithoria

Paradrillia lithoria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae, the turrids.^[1]

Paradrillia lithoria
Original image of a shell of Paradrillia lithoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Horaiclavidae
Genus:	Paradrillia
Species:	P. lithoria
Binomial name
Paradrillia lithoria (Melvill & Standen, 1903)
Synonyms[1]
Drillia lithoria Melvill & Standen, 1903

Description

The length of the shell attains 8 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm.

This is a small highly coloured, fusiform species, with a conspicuous, spiral, swollen, nodulous angle just above the centre of the whorls. It contains eight whorls, of which two in the protoconch. The aperture has a square-ovate shape. The outer lip is thin. The sinus is wide but not deep. The siphonal canal is short.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Bahrein and in the Persian Gulf.