Clavus flammulatus

Clavus flammulatus
Drawing of Clavus flammulatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Clavus
Species: C. flammulatus
Binomial name
Clavus flammulatus
Montfort, 1810
Synonyms[1]
  • Clavatula echinata Lamarck, 1816
  • Drillia echinata Lamarck, 1816

Clavus flammulatus, common name the flame turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 50 mm. The shell is whitish, with chestnut longitudinal streaks, forming bands interrupted by the ribs, often chestnut-spotted between the tubercles. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along East Africa and in the Central Pacific Ocean.

References

  1. 1 2 Clavus flammulatus Montfort, 1810.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 September 2011.
  2. G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 185; 1884 (described as Drillia echinata)

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