Clavatula tripartita

Clavatula tripartita
	Apertural view of Clavatula tripartita
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Clavatulidae
Genus:	Clavatula
Species:	C. tripartita
Binomial name
	Clavatula tripartita; (Weinkauff & Kobelt, 1876)
Synonyms
	Clavatula (Clionella) bipartita Smith E.A., 187; Clavatula (Perrona) obesa Reeve, 1884; Clavatula parilis Smith, E.A., 1901; Clionella assimilans Turton, W.H., 1932; Clionella bipartita Smith, E.A., 1877; Clionella tripartita (Weinkauff & Kobelt, 1876); Pleurotoma (Clionella) bipartita E. A. Smith, 1877 (typographical error for tripartita); Pleurotoma (Clavatula) tripartita Weinkauff & Kobelt, 1876 (basionym);

Clavatula tripartita is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.^[1]^[2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 26 mm and 45 mm.

This marine species occurs from Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa to Mozambique

^ ^a ^b Clavatula tripartita (Weinkauff & Kobelt, 1876). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 July 2012.
^ 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.

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