Suavodrillia declivis
Encyclopedia
Suavodrillia declivis is a species of sea snail
, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family
Borsoniidae
.
is somewhat more produced and narrowed. The anal sinus is shallow. The columella is not plicate. The color of the shell is light reddish fulvous.
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Borsoniidae
Borsoniidae
Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.In 2011, Bouchet, Kantor et al...
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Description
The shell is multicarinate with a few, strong carinae. The siphonal canalSiphonal canal
Some sea marine gastropods have a soft tubular anterior extension of the mantle called a siphon through which water is drawn into the mantle cavity and over the gill and which serves as a chemoreceptor to locate food. In many carnivorous snails, where the siphon is particularly long, the structure...
is somewhat more produced and narrowed. The anal sinus is shallow. The columella is not plicate. The color of the shell is light reddish fulvous.