Clionella rosaria

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Clionella rosaria
Drawing of Clionella rosaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Clionella
Species: C. rosaria
Binomial name
Clionella rosaria
(Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clionella kowiensis Turton, 1932
  • Clionella kowiensis viridis (f) Turton, W.H., 1932
  • Clionella nereia Bartsch, P., 1915
  • Clionella rosaria f. kowiensis (Turton, 1932)
  • Clionella proxima Turton, W.H., 1932
  • Clionella sybaritica Bartsch, P., 1915
  • Pleurotoma rosaria Reeve, 1846

Clionella rosaria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1] [2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 15 mm and 23 mm. The shell is shortly subulate, truncated at the base. The whorls are plaited and smooth. The aperture is short. The color of the shell is bright scarlet-rose, the uppermost part of the whorls is white-zoned. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs from False Bay to South KwaZuluNatal, South Africa

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Clionella rosaria (Reeve, 1846).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  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. ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI, p. 233; 1884
  • Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 116
  • Kilburn, R.N. (1985). Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 2. Subfamily Clavatulinae. Ann. Natal Mus. 26(2), 417-470
  • Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg
  • Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp. page(s): 150
  • Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg

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