Clathrodrillia flavidula

Clathrodrillia flavidula
Drawing of Clathrodrillia flavidula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Clathrodrillia
Species:	C. flavidula
Binomial name
Clathrodrillia flavidula (Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]
Drillia flavidula Lamarck, 1822 Pleurotoma flavidula Lamarck, 1822

Clathrodrillia flavidula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.^{[1] [2]}

Description

The shell is rather thin, turreted, longitudinally obliquely ribbed and crossed by revolving lines. The color of the shell is yellowish white to brown, the lighter-colored specimens sometimes indistinctly broadly fasciated with brown. Its length is 65 mm and its diameter 20 mm. ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species is found along China and Japan.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Clathrodrillia flavidula (Lamarck, 1822).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433222 on 6 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. ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 177; 1884 (described as Drillia flavidula)

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