Clavus auriculifera

Clavus auriculifera
Drawing of Clavus auriculifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Clavus
Species:	C. auriculifera
Binomial name
Clavus auriculifera Lamarck
Synonyms
Drillia auriculifera Lamarck

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

This species needs further investigation (species inquerenda)

Description

The shell is white, with a broad chestnut band below the periphery. The tuberculations of the periphery are often long, spinose. There is usually a revolving row of nodules below the middle of the body whorl. ^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along the Aldabra Atoll and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines.

References

1. ^ Clavus auriculifera Lamarck.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217098 on 8 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. 185; 1884 (described as Drillia auricilufera, section Clavus)

• Taylor, J.D. (1973). Provisional list of the mollusca of Aldabra Atoll.

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