Clavus cantharis
| Clavus cantharis | |
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| Drawing of Clavus cantharis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Clavus |
| Species: | C. cantharis |
| Binomial name | |
| Clavus cantharis (Reeve, 1845) [1] | |
| Synonyms[2][3] | |
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Clavus cantharis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2] [4]
Description
The shell grows to a length of 11 mm. The smooth shell is thick and solid. Its color is very dark brown, the nodules are whitish. The whorls are oblique and nodosely plicated round the middle. The anal sinus is rather large. [5]
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Indo-Pacific Region, along the Philippines.
References
- ↑ Reeve. Proc. Zool. Soc., 1845, p. 118
- 1 2 Clavus cantharis (Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 September 2011.
- ↑ Malacolog : Clavus
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 199; 1884 (described as Drillia cantharis)
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