Clavus pusilla
| Clavus pusilla | |
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| Drawing of Clavus pusilla | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Clavus |
| Species: | C. pusilla |
| Binomial name | |
| Clavus pusilla (Garrett, 1873) [1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Clavus pusilla is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]
Description
The shell grows to a length of 4 mm. The whorls are nearly plane, 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 shell is reddish chestnut, the ribs whitish, with a dark band below the middle of the body whorl. [3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of tropical Pacific Ocean along the Philippines, Viti, Cook Islands & Paumotu Islands
References
- ↑ Garrett. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1873, p. 219, pi. ii, f. 31
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Clavus pusilla (Garrett, 1873). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 September 2011.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 206; 1884 (described as Drillia exilis, considered by Tryon as a synonym of Drillia pusilla)
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295