Drillia diasi
Species of sea snail
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Drillia diasi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
| Drillia diasi | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Drillia |
| Species: | D. diasi |
| Binomial name | |
| Drillia diasi K.H. Barnard, 1958 | |
Description
The creamy white shell consists of calcium carbonates and unusually for shelled animals contains little to no chitin. It attains the length 9 mm and the diameter 3.75 mm. This animal is carnivorous, has only one gill and one kidney and lacks a brain.[citation needed]
Drillia diasi was first described scientifically in 1958 by Keppel Harcourt Barnard (1887–1964), a South African zoologist who spent his career at the South African Museum in Cape Town.[2] Barnard's description appeared in his monograph on South African marine gastropods of the suborder Toxoglossa, published in the Annals of the South African Museum.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the demersal zone of the Atlantic Ocean off South Africa.
Life cycle
This species is a non-broadcast spawner. Its life cycle does not include the trochophore stage.[3]