Clathrodrillia flavidula

Clathrodrillia flavidula
Shells of Clathrodrillia flavidula (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Clathrodrillia
Species:	C. flavidula
Binomial name
Clathrodrillia flavidula (Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms [1]
Brachystoma flavidulaYen, T.C. 1942 Clathrodrillia flavidula(Lamarck, 1822) Clavatula flavidula(Lamarck, 1822) Clavus flavidulus(Lamarck, 1822) Clavus (Clathrodrillia) flavidulus(Lamarck, 1822) Drillia flavidulaLamarck, 1822 Drillia lanceolata(Reeve, 1845) Funa flavidula(Lamarck, 1822) Inquisitor flavidula [sic] (incorrect gender ending) Inquisitor flavidulus(Lamarck, 1822) Pleurotoma flavidulaLamarck, 1822 Ptychobela flavidula(Lamarck, 1822)

Clathrodrillia flavidula, common name the javelin turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. ^{[1] [2]}

Description

The shell is rather thin, turreted, longitudinally obliquely ribbed and crossed by revolving lines. The color of the shell is yellowish white to brown, the lighter-colored specimens sometimes indistinctly broadly fasciated with brown. Its length is 65 mm and its diameter 20 mm. ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species is found in the Red Sea  ; off the Philippines, China and Japan; off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)

References

1. Clathrodrillia flavidula (Lamarck, 1822) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 6 September 2011.
2. 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 .
3. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 177; 1884 (described as Drillia flavidula)

• Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp
• Reeve, L.A. 1843. Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma. pls 1–18 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 1.
• Martin, K. 1895. Die Fossilien von Java auf Grund einer Sammlung von Dr. R.D.M. Verbeek. Sammlung des Geologischen Reichsmuseums in Leiden 1(2): 1–132, pls 1–20
• Grant, U.S. (IV) & Gale, H.R. 1931. Catalogue of the marine Pliocene and Pleistocene mollusca of California and adjacent regions with notes on their morphology, classification, and nomenclature and a special treatment of the Pectinidae and the Turridae (including a few Miocene and Recent species). Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History 1: 1–1036, pl. 1–32
• Oostingh, C.H. 1939. Die Mollusken des Pliocaens von Sued-Bantam in Java. Publications of the Mijnbouw in Nederlandsch-Indië. Geological Magazine 6(12): 163–187, pls 14–16
• Yen, T.C. 1942. A review of the Chinese gastropods in the British Museum. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 24(5/6): 170–290
• Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the Central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp.
• Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls.
• Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.
• Kosuge, S. 1992. Report on the family Turridae collected along the north-western coast of Australia (Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 2(10): pls 58–59, text figs 1–24
• Wells, F.E. 1994. A revision of the Recent Australian species of the turrid genera Inquisitor and Ptychobela. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 15: 71–102
• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
• Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp.

External links

• "Clathrodrillia flavidula". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
• Baoquan Li 李宝泉 & R.N. Kilburn, Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, 1966 (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas; Journal of Natural History 44(11):699–740 · March 2010; DOI: 10.1080/00222930903470086