Clavus pusilla

Clavus pusilla
Drawing of Clavus pusilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Clavus
Species: C. pusilla
Binomial name
Clavus pusilla
(Garrett, 1873) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Clavus (Tylotiella) pusilla (Garrett, 1873)
  • Drillia exilis Pease
  • Drillia pusilla Garrett, 1873

Clavus pusilla is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 4 mm. The whorls are nearly plane, 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 shell is reddish chestnut, the ribs whitish, with a dark band below the middle of the body whorl. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of tropical Pacific Ocean along the Philippines, Viti, Cook Islands & Paumotu Islands

References

  1. Garrett. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1873, p. 219, pi. ii, f. 31
  2. 1 2 Clavus pusilla (Garrett, 1873).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 September 2011.
  3. G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 206; 1884 (described as Drillia exilis, considered by Tryon as a synonym of Drillia pusilla)

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