Clavus exilis
| Clavus exilis | |
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| Drawing of Clavus exilis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Clavus |
| Species: | C. exilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Clavus exilis (Pease, 1868) | |
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Clavus exilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
Description
The whorls are nearly plane and longitudinally plicately ribbed. The ribs are small and close, descending from the sutures. The aperture is very short. The siphonal canal is short and open. The color of the shell is reddish chestnut, the ribs whitish, with a dark band below the middle of the body whorl. [2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean along KwaZuluNatal, South Africa, and Mozambique; in the Pacific Ocean along Polynesia
References
- 1 2 Clavus exilis (Pease, 1868). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 September 2011.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 206; 1884 (described as Drillia exilis)
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
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