Reishia clavigera | |
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Three individuals of Thais clavigera with many egg masses | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Reishia |
Species: | R. clavigera |
Binomial name | |
Reishia clavigera (Küster, 1860) | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Reishia clavigera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [2]
This species has been found to be useful as an indicator of the environmental contamination levels of arsenic, copper, and zinc.
This is an intertidal species, found on rocky shores in Malaysia, Singapore and Indo-China; also off Japan.