Clavatula taxea

Clavatula taxea
Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula taxea (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: 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)
  • Clionella taxus Chemnitz, 1786
  • Murex taxus Dillwyn, 1817
  • Pleurotoma taxus G. B. Sowerby I, 1825
  • 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]

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 nodulosely longitudinally plicate below, and flexuously longitudinally striate. The color of the aperture is brownish.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off False Bay to northeast of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

References

  1. ^ a b Clavatula taxea (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 July 2012.
  2. ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 231; 1884 (described as Clavatula taxus)
  • Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 116
  • 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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