Austrodrillia angasi
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| Austrodrillia angasi | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Austrodrillia angasi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Horaiclavidae |
| Genus: | Austrodrillia |
| Species: | A. angasi |
| Binomial name | |
| Austrodrillia angasi (Crosse, 1863) | |
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Austrodrillia angasi, common name Angas's turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.
The length of the shell attains 16 mm.
The shell has a brownish olivaceous color. It contains 9 whorls. The embryonal whorls are smooth. The others contain from seven to ten short longitudinal ribs forming a tuberculated shoulder. The surface often shows minute revolving striae. The aperture is chestnut-brown. Sometimes there is a brown band below the middle of the body whorl.[2]
