Clavus canalicularis

Clavus canalicularis
Two shells of Clavus canalicularis (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Clavus
Species: C. canalicularis
Binomial name
Clavus canalicularis
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clavus auriculifera Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1816
  • Drillia auriculifera Lamarck, 1816
  • Strombus canalicularis Röding, 1798 (basionym)

Clavus canalicularis, common name the ear turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1][2]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 27 mm.

The white shell shows a broad chestnut band below the periphery. The tuberculations of the periphery are often long and spinose. Usually a revolving row of nodules appears below the middle of the body whorl. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indo-West Pacific off Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines; off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland).

References

  1. 1 2 Clavus canalicularis (Röding, 1798).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 September 2011.
  2. 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.
  3. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences


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