Clavatula lelieuri

Clavatula lelieuri
Apertural view of Clavatula lelieuri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Clavatulidae
Genus:Clavatula
Species: C. lelieuri
Binomial name
Clavatula lelieuri
(Récluz, 1851) [1]
Synonyms[2]

Pleurotoma lelieuri Recluz, 1851

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

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 20 mm and 40 mm. The turreted shell is yellowish brown. The upper portion of the whorls are coivered with large brown maculations and a revolving series of small brown spots just above the lower carina. The whorls are smooth and concave above, with revolving raised lines below the bicarinated periphery.[4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa (Senegal, Guinea, Gabon)

References

  1. ↑ Recluz. Jour, de Conch., ii, t. 5, f. 7
  2. 1 2 Clavatula lelieuri (Récluz, 1851).  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. 228-229; 1884
  • Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp.

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