Clavus coffea

Clavus coffea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Clavus coffea
Two shells of Clavus coffea (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Clavus
Species:
C. coffea
Binomial name
Clavus coffea
(Smith E. A., 1882)
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma (Clavus) coffea Smith E. A., 1882

Description

The ovate shell has an acuminate apex. The color of the shell is red with white ribs in the middle. The fine apical whorls are small and produced suddenly into a cone. The shell contains 9 slightly convex whorls. The length of the aperture equals 7/17th of the length of the shell. The columella is callous and covered with tubercles at the suture. The anal sinus is small and located under a tubercle. The siphonal canal is very short.[2]

Distribution

This species is found in the demersal zone of the Western Central Pacific Ocean off the Philippines.[3][4]

gollark: That seems impractical.
gollark: ND Visitor and ND Helper could be separate.
gollark: Yes - do them in Nanuary, Nebuary, Napril, Nay, Nune, Nuly, Naugust, Neptember, Noctober, November and Necember.
gollark: Someone here has a CB gold for a coded new release, which seems a bit more sensible.
gollark: Unless you subcontract to other people to hold gusties until they hit ultra low time, you'll be bottlenecked by that.

References
  1. Clavus coffea (Smith E. A., 1882). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  2. Smith, E.A. (1882a), Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5, 10, 206–218
  3. "Clavus coffea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  4. Sealifebase.org : Clavus coffea
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.