Clavus flammulatus
| Clavus flammulatus | |
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| Drawing of Clavus flammulatus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Clavus |
| Species: | C. flammulatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Clavus flammulatus Montfort, 1810 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Clavus flammulatus, common name the flame turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 50 mm. The shell is whitish, with chestnut longitudinal streaks, forming bands interrupted by the ribs, often chestnut-spotted between the tubercles. [2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along East Africa and in the Central Pacific Ocean.
References
- 1 2 Clavus flammulatus Montfort, 1810. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 September 2011.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 185; 1884 (described as Drillia echinata)
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
- Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
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