Clathrodrillia flavidula

Clathrodrillia flavidula
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)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clavatula flavidula (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Clavus flavidulus (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Drillia flavidula Lamarck, 1822
  • Funa flavidula (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Inquisitor flavidula [sic] (incorrect gender ending)
  • Inquisitor flavidulus (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Pleurotoma flavidula Lamarck, 1822
  • Ptychobela flavidula (Lamarck, 1822)

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. 1 2 Clathrodrillia flavidula (Lamarck, 1822).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 September 2011.
  2. 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.
  3. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 177; 1884 (described as Drillia flavidula)

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