Clavatula caerulea

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

Clavatula caerulea
Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula caerulea (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. caerulea
Binomial name
Clavatula caerulea
(Weinkauff & Kobelt, 1875)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia coerulea H.C. Weinkauff, 1875
  • Pleurotoma caerulea Weinkauff & Kobelt, 1875
  • Surcula coerulea Weinkauff
  • Surcula pyramidata Kiener

Description

The length of the shell attains 20 mm. The shell is narrowly turreted and strongly keeled. The keel is tuberculated, with revolving, sometimes granulous striae below it. The granules are more apparent at the base. The color of the shell is bluish, the tubercles white, with the interstices purplish.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Angola.

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References
  1. Clavatula caerulea (Weinkauff & Kobelt, 1875). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
  • Weinkauff. Conch. Cab., p. 34, pi. vii, f. 4–6, 23
  • Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp.
  • Nolf F. (2011) Rehabilitation of Clavatula smithi Knudsen, 1952 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Clavatulidae). Neptunea 10(2): 5–15.
  • 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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