Thais clavigera
| Thais clavigera | |
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| Three individuals of Thais clavigera with many egg masses | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Rapaninae |
| Genus: | Thais |
| Species: | T. clavigera |
| Binomial name | |
| Thais clavigera Köster, 1858 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Thais clavigera is a species of predatory sea snail with an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock shells.
This is an intertidal species, found on rocky shores in Malaysia, Singapore and Indo-China.
This species has been found to be useful as an indicator of the environmental contamination levels of arsenic, copper, and zinc.
References
- ↑ OBIS : Thais clavigera: accessed : 10 January 2011