Clavus exilis

Clavus exilis
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)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia exilis Pease, 1868
  • Iredalea exilis (Pease, 1868)

Clavus exilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

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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. ^ a b Clavus exilis (Pease, 1868).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433283 on 19 September 2011.
  2. ^ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 206; 1884 (described as Drillia exilis)