Clionella subventricosa
| Clionella subventricosa | |
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| Clionella subventricosa kaffraria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clavatulidae |
| Genus: | Clionella |
| Species: | C. subventricosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Clionella subventricosa (E.A. Smith, 1877)
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Clionella subventricosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]
- Subspecies
- Clionella subventricosa kaffraria Kilburn, 1985 (Eastern Cape subspecies)
- Clionella subventricosa subventricosa (E. A. Smith, 1877)
Description
The shell grows to a length of 22 mm.
The ovate, rather dark brown shell has a squat, fusiform shape. The eight whorls are slightly convex. The spiral sculpture shows shallow, well-spaced grooves. The axial ribs are rounded and number 11-14 per whorl. The shoulder angle lies below the middle of the whorl. The periphery is flattened so that body whorl is weakly biangulate. The aperture is rather large with a rather narrow, slightly notched siphonal canal. The color inside the aperture shows various shades of pale brown. The anal sinus is very shallow. [3]
Distribution
This marine species occurs from False Bay to Cape Agulhas, South Africa
References
- ^ a b Clionella subventricosa (E.A. Smith, 1877). 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.
- ^ E.A. Smith, Diagnoses of new Species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum; The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. 1877, vol. xix. p. 499
- Kilburn, R.N. (1985). Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 2. Subfamily Clavatulinae. Ann. Natal Mus. 26(2), 417-470
- Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp. page(s): 150
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