Clavatula decorata
| Clavatula decorata | |
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| Original drawing of a shell of Clavatula decorata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clavatulidae |
| Genus: | Clavatula |
| Species: | C. decorata
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| Binomial name | |
| Clavatula decorata G.B. Sowerby III, 1916
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Clavatula decorata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]
Description
The length of the shell attains 21 mm, its width 8 mm.
(From the original description) The fusiform shell is one of striking character. The spire is acutely turreted and contains 10 whorls. The whorls are unusually concave, with a stout prominent keel, crossed by numerous oblong somewhat oblique white tubercles or short plicae, which are rendered more conspicuous by a brown intersecting spiral line.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Sierra Leone.
References
- ^ a b Clavatula decorata Sowerby III, 1916. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Sowerby, G.B., III. (1916) Descriptions of seven new species of Mollusca belonging to the genera Drillia, Clavatula, Epitonium, Cantharidus, Bittium, Fissurella, and Cardium. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 12, 74–76, pl. 3.
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