Clavatula milleti
| Clavatula milleti | |
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| Drawing of Clavatula milleti | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clavatulidae |
| Genus: | Clavatula |
| Species: | C. milleti |
| Binomial name | |
| Clavatula milleti (Petit de la Saussaye, 1851) | |
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Clavatula milleti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1] [2]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 15 mm and 55 mm. The color of the shell is whitish, or yellowish flesh-color, or brown. It is more or less decussated by longitudinal and revolving engraved lines, some- times forming granulations especially on the spire The revolving lines are prominent on the body whorl, where the longitudinal ones are usually subobsolete. [3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean along West Africa (Senegal)
References
- 1 2 Clavatula milleti (Petit de la Saussaye, 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. 235; 1884 (described as Pusionella milleti)
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