Clavatula sacerdos
Clavatula sacerdos | |
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Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula sacerdos (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. sacerdos |
Binomial name | |
Clavatula sacerdos (Reeve, 1845) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Pleurotoma sacerdos Reeve, 1845 |
Clavatula sacerdos 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 17 mm and 27 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from the Western Sahara to Senegal.
References
- 1 2 Clavatula sacerdos (Reeve, 1845). 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.
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