Clathurella rava is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clathurellidae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Clathurellidae |
| Genus: | Clathurella |
| Species: | C. rava
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| Binomial name | |
| Clathurella rava (Hinds, 1843)
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Description
editThe size of an adult shell varies between 8 mm and 10 mm. The color of the shell is fulvous. The interstices of the ribs and the edge of the lip are stained purple-red. The anal sinus is wide and deep.[2]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Pacific Ocean in the Gulf of California, Mexico and along Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
References
edit- ^ a b Clathurella rava (Hinds, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
- ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI, p. 296; 1884
External links
edit- H. A. Pilsbry and H. N. Lowe, West Mexican and Central American Mollusks Collected by H. N. Lowe, 1929-31; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Vol. 84 (1932), pp. 33–144
- Brazier, J. 1876. A list of the Pleurotomidae collected during the Chevert expedition, with the description of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 151–162