Clavus quintuplex

Clavus quintuplex
Clavus quintuplex
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Clavus
Species: C. quintuplex
Binomial name
Clavus quintuplex
(Melvill, 1927)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Clavus (Plagiostropha) quintuplex Melvill, 1927
  • Plagiostropha quintuplex Melvill, 1927

Clavus quintuplex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

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Description

The shell grows to a length of 8 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the tropical Indo-Pacific along the Philippines.

References

  1. ^ a b Clavus quintuplex (Melvill, 1927).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432629 on 22 September 2011.
  2. ^ OBIS : Clavus (Plagiostropha) quintuplex
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295

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