Clavatula colini

Clavatula colini
Drawing of a shell of Clavatula colini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Clavatula
Species: C. colini
Binomial name
Clavatula colini
Von Maltzan, 1883 [1]

Clavatula colini is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[2][3]

Description

The color of the shell is rosaceous, with a superior, and an inferior brown band. The spire is longer than most species in this genus. It has a pronounced siphonal canal[4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Senegal.

References

  1. von Maltzan. Jahr. Mai. Gesell, 1883, 126, t. 3, f. 0
  2. Clavatula colini Von Maltzan, 1883.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  3. 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.
  4. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI, p. 230; 1884
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