Clathrodrillia flavidula
| Clathrodrillia flavidula | |
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| Drawing of Clathrodrillia flavidula | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Clathrodrillia |
| Species: | C. flavidula |
| Binomial name | |
| Clathrodrillia flavidula (Lamarck, 1822) | |
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Clathrodrillia flavidula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1][2]
Description
The shell is rather thin, turreted, longitudinally obliquely ribbed and crossed by revolving lines. The color of the shell is yellowish white to brown, the lighter-colored specimens sometimes indistinctly broadly fasciated with brown. Its length is 65 mm and its diameter 20 mm.[3]
Distribution
This marine species is found in the Red Sea and off China and Japan.
References
- 1 2 Clathrodrillia flavidula (Lamarck, 1822). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 September 2011.
- ↑ P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
- ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 177; 1884 (described as Drillia flavidula)
- Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.
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