Clavatula quinteni

Clavatula quinteni
Clavatula quinteni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Clavatula
Species: C. quinteni
Binomial name
Clavatula quinteni
Nolf & Verstraeten, 2006[1]

Clavatula quinteni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[2] [3]

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Description

The shell grows to a length of 46 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Gabon.

References

  1. ^ Nolf. 2006. Recognition of two new Clavatula species (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae) in a complex group from Gabon and North Angola, pp.15-19, plates I-X , Neptunea, 5 (3) : 1-14. World Register of Marine Species, accessed 4 April 2010.
  2. ^ Clavatula quinteni Nolf & Verstraeten, 2006.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=390483 on 4 April 2010.
  3. ^ 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. 

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