Clavatula perronii

Clavatula perronii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Clavatulidae
Genus:	Clavatula
Species:	C. perronii
Binomial name
Clavatula perronii (Reeve, 1843)
Synonyms[1]
Pleurotoma perronii Reeve, 1843 Perrona tritonium Schumacher, H.C.F., 1817

Clavatula perronii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.^{[1] [2]}

Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz (1730-1800) adopted a Dutch name " the perron," for this species, and Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814-1865) erroneously supposing it to be in honor of a naturalist, changed its form from Clavatula perron to Clavatula perronii.

Description

The shell grows to a length of 25 mm. The pale, yellow, fusiform shell is turreted and rather smooth. The whorls are flat, with flexuous longitudinal lines, slightly angulated round the upper part. The lower portion of the last whorl is contracted and with several regular, distant revolving ridges. The anal sinus is nearly central. ^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Gabon to North Angola.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Clavatula perronii (Reeve, 1843).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433263 on 4 April 2010.
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. ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 232; 1884

External links

• gastropods.com: Perrona perron; accessed: 21 August 2011