Clavus auriculifera

Clavus auriculifera
Drawing of Clavus auriculifera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Clavus
Species:
C. auriculifera
Binomial name
Clavus auriculifera
Lamarck
Synonyms[1]
  • 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 inquirenda)

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. ^ a b Clavus auriculifera Lamarck. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species 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.