Clavus exasperatus

Clavus exasperatus
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)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clavus (Tylotia) exasperatus (Reeve, 1843)
  • Pleurotoma exasperata Reeve, 1843
  • Pleurotoma exigua Hombron, J.B. & C.H. Jacquinot, 1854

Clavus exasperatus , common name the exasperating turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1] [2]

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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. ^ a b Clavus exasperatus (Reeve, 1843).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217096  on 7 September 2011.
  2. ^ 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. 
  3. ^ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 185; 1884 (described as Drillia exasperata)

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