Clavatula bimarginata

Clavatula bimarginata
Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula bimarginata (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Clavatula
Species: C. bimarginata
Binomial name
Clavatula bimarginata
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma bimarginata Lamarck, 1822

Clavatula bimarginata, common name the two-edged turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 18 mm and 60 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Mauritania to South Africa.

References

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