Clavus laeta

Clavus laeta
Clavus laeta
Clavus laeta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Clavus
Species: C. laeta
Binomial name
Clavus laeta
(Hinds, 1843) [1]
Synonyms[2] [3]
  • Clavus fusconitens (Sowerby, 1901)
  • Clavatula laeta Hinds, 1843
  • Pleurotoma mariei Crosse, H., 1869

Clavus laeta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]

This species is also mentioned as Clavus laetus.

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 8 mm and 20 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the tropical Indo-Pacific along New Guinea, New Caledonia, the Strait of Macassar, Indonesia, the Solomons and the Philippines

References

  1. ^ Hinds. Proc. Zool. Soc., 1843, p. 41
  2. ^ a b Clavus laeta (Hinds, 1843).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433290 on 5 April 2010.
  3. ^ Sealifebase: Clavus fusconitens
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295

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