Clionella costata

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Clionella costata
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Original drawing of a shell of Clionella costata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Clionella
Species:
C. costata
Binomial name
Clionella costata
(Swainson, 1840)
Synonyms [1]

Melatoma costataSwainson, 1840

Clionella costata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae. [1] [2]

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Description

(Original description) The shell has a fusiform shape and is longitudinally ribbed. There is a deep sinus at the top of the outer lip. The base is contracted. The siphonal canal is wide. [3]

The figure of the type, produced by Swainson, shows a shell with a tapering base, unlike any other species of Clionella. [4]

Distribution

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References

  1. 1 2 Clionella costata (Swainson, 1840) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 4 April 2010.
  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. ↑ William Swainson (1840). A Treatise on Malacology: Or, Shells and Shell Fish. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans. p. 1.
  4. ↑ Kilburn RN (1985), Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 2. Subfamily Clavatulinae; Annals of the Natal Museum, 1985


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