Clavatula bimarginata

Clavatula bimarginata
Clavatula bimarginata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae [1]
Genus: Clavatula
Species: C. bimarginata
Binomial name
Clavatula bimarginata
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[2]

Pleurotoma bimarginata Lamarck, 1822

Clavatula bimarginata, common name the two-edged turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[2]

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 18 mm and 60 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs from Mauritania to South Africa.

References

  1. ^ 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. 
  2. ^ a b Clavatula bimarginata (Lamarck, 1822).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224384 on 4 April 2010.
  • Wolff, W.J.; Duiven, P.; Esselink, P.; Gueve, A. (1993). Biomass of macrobenthic tidal flat fauna of the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania. Hydrobiologia 258(1-3): 151-163

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