Clavatula bimarginata

Clavatula bimarginata
Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula bimarginata (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Clavatulidae
Genus:Clavatula
Species: C. bimarginata
Binomial name
Clavatula bimarginata
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma bimarginata Lamarck, 1822

Clavatula bimarginata, common name the two-edged 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 18 mm and 60 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Mauritania to South Africa.

References

  • Lamarck, Animaux sans vertèbres., VII, p. 91.
  • Wolff, W.J.; Duiven, P.; Esselink, P.; Gueve, A. (1993). Biomass of macrobenthic tidal flat fauna of the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania. Hydrobiologia 258(1-3): 151-163
  • 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.


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