Clavatula taxea

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Clavatula taxea
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Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula taxea (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. taxea
Binomial name
Clavatula taxea
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms [1]
  • Clavatula rufanensisTurton, W.H., 1932
  • Clavatula taxus affinisChemnitz, J.H., 1786
  • Clionella taxea(Röding, 1798)
  • Clionella taxusChemnitz, 1786
  • Murex taxusDillwyn, 1817
  • Pleurotoma taxusG. B. Sowerby I, 1825
  • Turris taxeaRöding, 1798

Clavatula taxea, common name the yew turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae. [1]

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 50 mm and 75 mm. The color of the shell is yellowish brown, nexuously lineated with chestnut, under a thick olivaceous brown epidermis. The whorls are constricted above, slightly nodulosely longitudinally plicate below, and flexuously longitudinally striate. The color of the aperture is brownish. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off False Bay to northeast of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

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References

  1. 1 2 Clavatula taxea (Röding, 1798) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 8 July 2012.
  2. ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 231; 1884 (described as Clavatula taxus)
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