Clavus canalicularis

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Clavus canalicularis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Clavus
Species: C. canalicularis
Binomial name
Clavus canalicularis
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clavus auriculifera Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1816
  • Drillia auriculifera Lamarck, 1816
  • Strombus canalicularis Röding, 1798 (basionym)

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

Description

The shell grows to a length of 27 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs along Vietnam to Queensland, Australia; and along the Philippines

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Clavus canalicularis (Röding, 1798).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 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. 
  • Wells F.E. (1991) A revision of the Recent Australian species of the turrid genera Clavus, Plagiostropha, and Tylotiella (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 12: 1–33. [31 October 1991]

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