Clionella semicostata
| Clionella semicostata | |
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| Drawing of Clionella semicostata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clavatulidae |
| Genus: | Clionella |
| Species: | C. semicostata |
| Binomial name | |
| Clionella semicostata (Kiener, 1840) | |
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Clionella semicostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1] [2]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 15 mm and 32 mm. The whorls are with shallow channel above. The periphery of the shell is nodulous by the terminations of short, oblique, rather distant ribs. The anal sinus is broad. The color of the shell is light yellowish brown. [3]
Distribution
This marine species occurs from False Bay to Cape Agulhas, South Africa
References
- 1 2 Clionella semicostata (Kiener, 1840). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 233; 1884
- Kilburn, R.N. (1985). Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 2. Subfamily Clavatulinae. Ann. Natal Mus. 26(2), 417-470.
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