Clavatula caerulea

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Clavatula caerulea
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Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula caerulea (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Clavatula
Species:
C. caerulea
Binomial name
Clavatula caerulea
(Weinkauff & Kobelt, 1875)
Synonyms [1]
  • Drillia coeruleaH.C. Weinkauff, 1875
  • Pleurotoma caeruleaWeinkauff & Kobelt, 1875
  • Surcula coeruleaWeinkauff
  • Surcula pyramidataKiener

Clavatula caerulea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae. [1]

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Description

The length of the shell attains 20 mm. The shell is narrowly turreted and strongly keeled. The keel is tuberculated, with revolving, sometimes granulous striae below it. The granules are more apparent at the base. The color of the shell is bluish, the tubercles white, with the interstices purplish. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Angola.

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