Paradrillia patruelis

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

Paradrillia patruelis
Image of a shell of Paradrillia patruelis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Horaiclavidae
Genus:	Paradrillia
Species:	P. patruelis
Binomial name
Paradrillia patruelis (Smith E. A., 1875)
Synonyms[1]
Vexitomina chinensis Ma, 1989 Clavatula patruelis (Smith E. A., 1875à Pleurotoma patruelis Smith E. A., 1875

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.^[2]

Distribution

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