Pleuroploca clava

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Pleuroploca clava
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Pleuroploca clava - preserved specimen
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Fasciolariidae
Genus: Pleuroploca
Species:
P. clava
Binomial name
Pleuroploca clava
(Jonas, 1846)
Synonyms [1]

Fasciolaria clavaJonas, 1846Pleuroploca persicaReeve, 1847

Pleuroploca clava, the Persian horse conch is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies. [1]

Distribution

This species occurs in Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean.

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