Clavus cygnea

Clavus cygnea
Clavus cygnea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Clavus
Species: C. cygnea
Binomial name
Clavus cygnea
(Melvill & Standen, 1897)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Drillia nitens Brazier, 1876
  • Drillia cygnea Melvill & Standen, 1897

Clavus cygnea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1] This species is mentioned in the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database as Clavus cygneus [2]

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Description

Distribution

This species is found in the demersal zone of tropical waters along Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. [3]

References

  1. ^ a b Clavus cygnea (Melvill & Standen, 1897).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433282 on 19 September 2011.
  2. ^ a b OBIS : Clavus cygneus
  3. ^ Gastropods.com : Clavus cygnea
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

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