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Clavatula taxea (Röding 1798)

Clavatula taxea

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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.[1]

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 nodulously longitudinally plicate below, and flexuously longitudinally striate. The color of the aperture is brownish.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off False Bay to northeast of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

References

  1. ^ a b Clavatula taxea (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 July 2012.
  2. ^ 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

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Clavatula taxea: Brief Summary

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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.

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