Clavatula lelieuri
| Clavatula lelieuri | |
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| Apertural view of Clavatula lelieuri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clavatulidae |
| Genus: | Clavatula |
| Species: | C. lelieuri |
| Binomial name | |
| Clavatula lelieuri (Récluz, 1851) [1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Pleurotoma lelieuri Recluz, 1851 | |
Clavatula lelieuri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[2] [3]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 20 mm and 40 mm. The turreted shell is yellowish brown. The upper portion of the whorls are coivered with large brown maculations and a revolving series of small brown spots just above the lower carina. The whorls are smooth and concave above, with revolving raised lines below the bicarinated periphery. [4]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean along West Africa (Senegal, Guinea, Gabon)
References
- ↑ Recluz. Jour, de Conch., ii, t. 5, f. 7
- 1 2 Clavatula lelieuri (Récluz, 1851). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ↑ 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. 228-229; 1884
- Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp.
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