Clavatula decorata
Species of gastropod
Clavatula decorata | |
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Original drawing of a shell of Clavatula decorata | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Clavatulidae |
Genus: | Clavatula |
Species: | C. decorata |
Binomial name | |
Clavatula decorata G.B. Sowerby III, 1916 |
Clavatula decorata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]
Description
The length of the shell attains 21 mm, its width 8 mm.
(From the original description) The fusiform shell is one of striking character. The spire is acutely turreted and contains 10 whorls. The whorls are unusually concave, with a stout prominent keel, crossed by numerous oblong somewhat oblique white tubercles or short plicae, which are rendered more conspicuous by a brown intersecting spiral line.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Sierra Leone.
References
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- ^ a b Clavatula decorata Sowerby III, 1916. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Sowerby, G.B., III. (1916) Descriptions of seven new species of Mollusca belonging to the genera Drillia, Clavatula, Epitonium, Cantharidus, Bittium, Fissurella, and Cardium. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 12, 74–76, pl. 3.