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Clavatula decorata

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Clavatula decorata
Original drawing of a shell of Clavatula decorata
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. decorata
Binomial name
Clavatula decorata
G.B. Sowerby III, 1916

Clavatula decorata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]

Description

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The length of the shell attains 21 mm, its width 8 mm.

(From the original description) The fusiform shell is one of striking character. The spire is acutely turreted and contains 10 whorls. The whorls are unusually concave, with a stout prominent keel, crossed by numerous oblong somewhat oblique white tubercles or short plicae, which are rendered more conspicuous by a brown intersecting spiral line.[3]

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Sierra Leone.

References

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  1. ^ a b Clavatula decorata Sowerby III, 1916. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  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. ^ Sowerby, G.B., III. (1916) Descriptions of seven new species of Mollusca belonging to the genera Drillia, Clavatula, Epitonium, Cantharidus, Bittium, Fissurella, and Cardium. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 12, 74–76, pl. 3.