Clavatula bimarginata

Clavatula bimarginata, common name the two-edged turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1]

Clavatula bimarginata
Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula bimarginata (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Clavatula
Species:
C. bimarginata
Binomial name
Clavatula bimarginata
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma bimarginata Lamarck, 1822

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 18 mm and 60 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Mauritania to South Africa.

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References
  1. Clavatula bimarginata (Lamarck, 1822). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  • Lamarck, Animaux sans vertèbres., VII, p. 91.
  • Wolff, W.J.; Duiven, P.; Esselink, P.; Gueve, A. (1993). Biomass of macrobenthic tidal flat fauna of the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania. Hydrobiologia 258(1-3): 151-163
  • 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.


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