| Clavatula taxea | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula taxea (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. taxea |
| Binomial name | |
| Clavatula taxea (Röding, 1798) | |
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Clavatula taxea, common name the yew turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 50 mm and 75 mm. The color of the shell is yellowish brown, nexuously lineated with chestnut, under a thick olivaceous brown epidermis. The whorls are constricted above, slightly nodulosely longitudinally plicate below, and flexuously longitudinally striate. The color of the aperture is brownish.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off False Bay to northeast of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
References
- ^ Clavatula taxea (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 July 2012.
- George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 231; 1884 (described as Clavatula taxus)
- Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 116
- Kilburn, R.N. (1985). Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 2. Subfamily Clavatulinae. Ann. Natal Mus. 26(2), 417–470
External links
- "Clionella taxea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
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| Clavatula taxea | |