Clavatula taxea
Appearance
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Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula taxea (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Clavatulidae |
Genus: | Clavatula |
Species: | C. taxea
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Binomial name | |
Clavatula taxea (Röding, 1798)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Clavatula taxea, common name the yew turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The size of an adult shell varies between 50 mm and 75 mm. The color of the shell is yellowish brown, nexuously lineated with chestnut, under a thick olivaceous brown epidermis. The whorls are constricted above, slightly nodulosely longitudinally plicate below, and flexuously longitudinally striate. The color of the aperture is brownish.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off False Bay to northeast of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
References
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: a b Clavatula taxea (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 July 2012.
- ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 231; 1884 (described as Clavatula taxus)
- Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 116
- Kilburn, R.N. (1985). Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 2. Subfamily Clavatulinae. Ann. Natal Mus. 26(2), 417–470
External links
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- "Clionella taxea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 22 August 2011.