Clavus paroeca

Clavus paroeca
Original image of the protoconch and shell of Clavus paroeca
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Clavus
Species:	C. paroeca
Binomial name
Clavus paroeca (Melvill, 1923)
Synonyms [1]
Drillia paroecaMelvill, 1923

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 19 mm, its diameter 7 mm.

(Original description) The solid shell has an abbreviately fusiform shape. It is white, the basal third of the body whorl is ochreous. It contains 9 whorls, including the smooth and globular protoconch. The remainder are longitudinally many-ribbed., These ribs are stout, angled, and echinate, crossed by many faint revolving lines. The body whorl is ten-ribbed. The aperture is oblong. The outer lip is slightly expanded. The columellar margin is almost straight. The wide siphonal canal is abbreviate. The sinus is well expressed, wide, and fairly deep. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the tropical Indo-Pacific; also off Brunei.

References

1. Clavus paroeca (Melvill, 1923) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 April 2010.
2. Melvill J.C. 1923a, Descriptions of 21 spp of Turridae from various localities in the collections of Mr E.R. Sykes.; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 15 (1923), p. 166 (described as Drillia paroeca)

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295