Clavus exilis

Clavus exilis
Image of a shell of Clavus exilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Clavus
Species:	C. exilis
Binomial name
Clavus exilis (Pease, 1868)
Synonyms [1]
Drillia exilisPease, 1868 Iredalea exilis(Pease, 1868)

Clavus exilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. ^[1]

Description

The pupoid-claviform shell is small (8 mm or less). The 5½ teleoconch whorls are nearly plane and longitudinally plicately ribbed. The 15–22 axial ribs are small and close, descending from the sutures. The aperture is very short. The anal sulcus is moderately deep. The siphonal canal is short and open. The color of the shell is reddish chestnut, the ribs whitish, with a dark band below the middle of the body whorl. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off KwaZuluNatal, South Africa, and Mozambique; in the Pacific Ocean off Polynesia

References

1. Clavus exilis (Pease, 1868) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 19 September 2011.
2. G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 206; 1884 (described as Drillia exilis)

• Pease, W. H. 1868. Description of marine gasteropodae inhabiting Polynesia. Amer. J. Conch. 3: 211–222, pI. 15
• Garrett, A. 1873. Descriptions of new species of marine shells inhabiting the South Sea island. Proc. A cad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1873: 209–231, pIs. 2–3
• Maes, V. O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 119(4): 93–127.
• R. N. Kilburn (1988), Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 4. Subfamilies Drilliinae, Crassispirinae and Strictispirinae; Ann. Natal Mus. Vol. 29(1) Pages 167–320
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.

External links

• Specimen at MNHN, Paris