Clavus laetus
| Clavus laetus | |
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| Clavus laetus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Clavus |
| Species: | C. laetus |
| Binomial name | |
| Clavus laetus (Hinds, 1843) [1] | |
| Synonyms[2][3] | |
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Clavus laetus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]
This species is also mentioned as Clavus laetus.
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 8 mm and 20 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the tropical Indo-Pacific along New Guinea, New Caledonia, the Strait of Macassar, Indonesia, the Solomons and the Philippines
References
- ↑ Hinds. Proc. Zool. Soc., 1843, p. 41
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bouchet, P. (2014). Clavus laetus (Hinds, 1843). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433290 on 2015-01-31
- ↑ Sealifebase: Clavus fusconitens
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
- 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.