Drillia adusta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.
Description (Original description in Latin) The shell istapering to a point (pyramid-shaped) and is brown (or dusky).
It has ten whorls, which are flattened above, with tubercles (or knobs) in the middle, with the tubercles being somewhat compressed longitudinally. The body whorl is grooved with granules below. The aperture is short, [with] a posterior sinus (or notch). The siphonal canal is very short.Sowerby, G.B., I. (1834) Characters of new species of Mollusca and Conchifera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1833, 134–139
Distribution This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Pacific Ocean off Colombia.
References
Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295
External links W.H. Dall (1909), Report on the collection of shells from Peru; Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 37, pages 147–294, with Plates 20–28