Clavatula taxea

Clavatula taxea
Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula taxea (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. taxea
Binomial name
Clavatula taxea
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clavatula rufanensis Turton, W.H., 1932
  • Clavatula taxus affinis Chemnitz, J.H., 1786
  • Clionella taxea (Röding, 1798)
  • Clionella taxus Chemnitz, 1786
  • Murex taxus Dillwyn, 1817
  • Turris taxea Röding, 1798

Clavatula taxea, common name the yew 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 50 mm and 75 mm. The color of the shell is yellowish brown, nexuously lineated with chestnut, under a thick olivaceous brown epidermis. The whorls are constricted above, slightly nodulously longitudinally plicate below, and flexuously longitudinally striate. The color of the aperture is brownish. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off False Bay to northeast of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

References

  1. 1 2 Clavatula taxea (Röding, 1798).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 July 2012.
  2. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 231; 1884 (described as Clavatula taxus)
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