Clavus flammulatus

Clavus flammulatus
Two views of a shell of Clavus flammulatus (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Clavus
Species:	C. flammulatus
Binomial name
Clavus flammulatus Montfort, 1810
Synonyms [1]
Clavatula echinataLamarck, 1816 Drillia echinataLamarck, 1816

Clavus flammulatus, common name the flame turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. ^[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 50 mm. The shell is whitish, with chestnut longitudinal streaks, forming bands interrupted by the ribs, often chestnut-spotted between the tubercles. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off East Africa and in the Central Pacific Ocean; also off Australia (Western Australia).

References

1. Clavus flammulatus Montfort, 1810 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 19 September 2011.
2. G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 185; 1884 (described as Drillia echinata)

• Montfort, P.D. de 1810. Conchyliologie Systematique, et Classification Methodique des Coquilles. Paris : F. Schoell Vol. 2 676 + 16 pp.
• Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific Marine Shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
• Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
• Wells, F.E. 1991. A revision of the Recent Australian species of the turrid genera Clavus, Plagiostropha, and Tylotiella (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 12: 1–33
• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.

External links

• "Clavus flammulatus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 19 September 2011.