Clavus auriculifera
| Clavus auriculifera | |
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| Drawing of Clavus auriculifera | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Clavus |
| Species: | C. auriculifera |
| Binomial name | |
| Clavus auriculifera Lamarck | |
| Synonyms | |
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Drillia auriculifera Lamarck | |
Clavus auriculifera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1] [2]
This species needs further investigation (species inquerenda)
Description
The shell is white, with a broad chestnut band below the periphery. The tuberculations of the periphery are often long, spinose. There is usually a revolving row of nodules below the middle of the body whorl. [3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along the Aldabra Atoll and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines.
References
- ↑ Clavus auriculifera Lamarck. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 September 2011.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI, p. 185; 1884 (described as Drillia auricilufera, section Clavus)
- Taylor, J.D. (1973). Provisional list of the mollusca of Aldabra Atoll.