| Graciliclava costata | |
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| Original image of a shell of Graciliclava costata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Horaiclavidae |
| Genus: | Graciliclava |
| Species: | G. costata |
| Binomial name | |
| Graciliclava costata (Hedley, 1922) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Graciliclava costata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.
The length of the shell varies between 5 mm and 10 mm.
(Original description) The small, solid and compact shell has an ovate-elongate shape. Its colour is dull white, the summit buff-yellow, base anterior to the insertion of the lip pale orange-yellow. Along the suture are irregular chocolate splashes. The shell contains 7 whorls including a protoconch of two depressed whorls. Its sculpture consists of eight thick and prominent ribs to a whorl These descend the shell vertically and continuously; on the base they are slightly flexed, and each terminates anteriorly in a bead. Both ribs and interstices are engraved by very minute and dense spiral striae. The snout is traversed by a few coarse spirals, which cease at the bead row. On the smooth glossy protoconch is a pronounced median keel, which ends abruptly at the topmost rib. The aperture is pyriform and produced into a short, wide, open siphonal canal. Behind the lip is a prominent varix which, rising above the suture, fills an intervariceal space on the preceding whorl. A substantial callus sheet spreads on the inner lip, and a tubercle is formed near the right insertion. Just in front of the siphonal canal is a slight insinuation of the outer lip. [2]
This marine species occurs off Queensland, Australia and the Philippines
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