Clavatula imperialis

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Clavatula imperialis
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Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula imperialis (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Clavatula
Species:
C. imperialis
Binomial name
Clavatula imperialis
Lamarck, 1816

Clavatula imperialis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae. [1] [2]

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 50 mm. The ovate shell is short and ventricose. It is clothed with a thick, dark olive-colored epidermis. The whorls are angulated above, the angle having a row of scale-like tubercles. The columella is covered with a thick white callus. The interior of the aperture is stained above and below with violet. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean between Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola.

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References

  1. ↑ Clavatula imperialis Lamarck . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 4 April 2010.
  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, pp. 229–230; 1884
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