Clavus exasperatus

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Clavus exasperatus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Clavus
Species:
C. exasperatus
Binomial name
Clavus exasperatus
(Reeve, 1843)
Synonyms [1]
  • Austroclavus exasperatus(Reeve, 1843)
  • Clavus (Tylotia) exasperatus(Reeve, 1843)
  • Drillia auriculifera var. exasperataBouge & Dautzenberg, 1913
  • Drillia exasperataSmith, 1903
  • Drillia lividaHedley, 1909
  • Pleurotoma exasperataReeve, 1843
  • Pleurotoma exiguaHombron, J.B. & C.H. Jacquinot, 1854

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

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 15 mm and 30 mm. The shell is white, with a broad chestnut band below the periphery. The tuberculations of the periphery are short. There is usually a revolving row of nodules below the middle of the body whorl. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of tropical waters in the Indo-Pacific and off the Mascarene Basin and Réunion and Mozambique; also off Papua New Guinea and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).

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References

  1. 1 2 Clavus exasperatus (Reeve, 1843) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 7 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, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 185; 1884 (described as Drillia exasperata)