Clavus exasperatus
| Clavus exasperatus | |
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| Clavus exasperatus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Clavus |
| Species: | C. exasperatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Clavus exasperatus (Reeve, 1843) | |
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Clavus exasperatus, common name the exasperating turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1] [2]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 15 mm and 30 mm. The shell is white, with a broad chestnut band below the periphery. The tuberculations of the periphery are short. There is usually a revolving row of nodules below the middle of the body whorl. [3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of tropical waters in the Indo-Pacific and along the Mascarene Basin and Réunion.
References
- 1 2 Clavus exasperatus (Reeve, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 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.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 185; 1884 (described as Drillia exasperata)
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
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