Clavus pica
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| Two views of a shell of Clavus pica (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Clavus |
| Species: | C. pica
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| Binomial name | |
| Clavus pica (Reeve, 1843)
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Clavus pica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 8 mm and 25 mm. The thick shell is whitish, irregularly variegated with a few large squarish brown spots. The upper portion of the whorls is smooth, concave, below the periphery with numerous narrow ribs. The anal sinus is broad. [2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Indo-Pacific off Guam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Tuamotus and Christmas Island.
References
- ^ a b Clavus pica (Reeve, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 September 2011.
- ^ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 190; 1884 (described as Drillia pica)
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
- Kilburn R.N., Fedosov A. & Kantor Yu.I. (2014) The shallow-water New Caledonia Drilliidae of genus Clavus Montfort, 1810 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea). Zootaxa 3818(1): 1-69
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