Clavus formosus

Clavus formosus
Shell of Clavus formosus (specimen in the MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Clavus
Species:	C. formosus
Binomial name
Clavus formosus (Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms [1]
Clavus formosa(Reeve, 1846) Pleurotoma formosaReeve, 1846 Pleurotoma tessellataReeve, L.A., 1846 (treated by Reeve as a secondary homonym of Clathurella tessellataHinds, 1843; Pleurotoma formosa is a replacement name)

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

Description

Its description is almost identical to Clavus laeta (Hinds, 1843)

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Red Sea and the tropical Pacific Ocean off the Philippines. ^[2] and off Papua New Guinea .

References

1. Clavus formosa (Reeve, 1846) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 April 2010.
2. Sealifebase : Clavus formosa

• Reeve, L.A. (1843–46) Monograph of the Genus Pleurotoma. Conchologia Iconica, or Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals. Vol. 1. Reeve, London. pls 1–18 (1843); pl 19 (1844); pls 20–33 (1845); pls 34–40 + index and errata (1846)
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
• Kilburn R.N., Fedosov A. & Kantor Yu.I. (2014) The shallow-water New Caledonia Drilliidae of genus Clavus Montfort, 1810 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea). Zootaxa 3818(1): 1–69.

External links

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

Two shells of Clavus formosus