Clavatula sacerdos

Clavatula sacerdos
Clavatula sacerdos
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Clavatula
Species: C. sacerdos
Binomial name
Clavatula sacerdos
(Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma sacerdos Reeve, 1845

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

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 17 mm and 27 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from the Western Sahara to Senegal.

References

  1. ^ a b Clavatula sacerdos (Reeve, 1845).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433266 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. 

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