Clavus canalicularis

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Clavus canalicularis
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A shells Clavus canalicularis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Clavus
Species:
C. canalicularis
Binomial name
Clavus canalicularis
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms [1]
  • Clavus auriculiferaLamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1816
  • Drillia cf. auriculiferaLamarck, 1816
  • Strombus canalicularisRöding, 1798 (basionym)

Clavus canalicularis, common name the ear turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. [1] [2]

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Description

The shell grows to a length of 27 mm.

The white shell shows a broad chestnut band below the periphery. The tuberculations of the periphery are often long and spinose. Usually a revolving row of nodules appears below the middle of the body whorl. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indo-West Pacific off Vietnam, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines; off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland).

References

  1. 1 2 Clavus canalicularis (Röding, 1798) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 8 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. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences