| Clavatula caerulea | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula caerulea (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clavatulidae |
| Genus: | Clavatula |
| Species: | C. caerulea |
| Binomial name | |
| Clavatula caerulea (Weinkauff & Kobelt, 1875) | |
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Clavatula caerulea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.
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.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Angola.
References
- ^ Clavatula caerulea (Weinkauff & Kobelt, 1875). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- 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. . 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.
External links
- "Clavatula caerulea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
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| Clavatula caerulea | |