Thais clavigera

Thais clavigera
Three individuals of Thais clavigera with many egg masses
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Rapaninae
Genus: Thais
Species: T. clavigera
Binomial name
Thais clavigera
Köster, 1858
Synonyms[1]
  • Purpura alveolata Reeve, 1846
  • Purpura clavigera Köster, 1858

Thais clavigera is a species of predatory sea snail with an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock shells.

This is an intertidal species, found on rocky shores in Malaysia, Singapore and Indo-China.

This species has been found to be useful as an indicator of the environmental contamination levels of arsenic, copper, and zinc.

References

  1. OBIS : Thais clavigera: accessed : 10 January 2011

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