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Clavus infrafusca

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Clavus infrafusca
Original image of a shell of Clavus infrafusca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Clavus
Species:
C. infrafusca
Binomial name
Clavus infrafusca
(Sowerby G.B. III, 1893)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia infrafusca (Sowerby III, 1893)
  • Pleurotoma infrafusca Sowerby III, 1893 (original combination)

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

Description

The shell grows to a length of 19 mm, its diameter 7 mm. The ground color of the shell is white. The interstices between the ribs are red, while the lowest part of the body whorl is dark red. The very acute, turriform shell contains 10 whorls. The first 2-3 are not shouldered, the others are shouldered, concave above the angle, below hardly convex. The shell shows many opisthocline ribs of which the higher parts are thickened. They show minute red dots at the angle. The body whorl is very large compared to the length of the shell. The aperture has an oval shape. The outer lip is sharp and slightly sinuated. The siphonal canal is very short.[2]

Distribution

This species is found in the Indian Ocean in the Mascarene Basin off Mauritius and Réunion

References

  1. ^ a b Clavus infrafusca (Sowerby, 1893). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  2. ^ Sowerby G.B. III 1893, Descriptions of fifteen new species of shells of the family Pleurotomidae. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1893: 487–492
  • Drivas, J.; Jay, M. (1987). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection Les Beautés de la Nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. ISBN 2-603-00654-1. 159 pp.
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