- Clavatula taxea
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Clavatula taxea Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade NeogastropodaSuperfamily: Conoidea Family: Clavatulidae Genus: Clavatula Species: C. taxea Binomial name Clavatula taxea
(Röding, 1798)Synonyms[1] - Clavatula rufanensis Turton, W.H., 1932
- Clavatula taxus affinis Chemnitz, J.H., 1786
- Clionella taxea (Röding, 1798)
- Turris taxea Röding, 1798
Clavatula taxea, common name the yew turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1]
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Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 50 mm and 75 mm. The color of the shell is yellowish brown, nexuously lineated with chestnut, under a thick olivaceous brown epidermis. The whorls are constricted above, slightly nodulously longitudinally plicate below, and flexuously longitudinally striate. The color of the aperture is brownish. [2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs along False Bay to northeast Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
References
- ^ a b Clavatula taxea (Röding, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215593 on 4 April 2010.
- ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 231; 1884 (described as Clavatula taxus)
- Kilburn, R.N. (1985). Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 2. Subfamily Clavatulinae. Ann. Natal Mus. 26(2), 417-470
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