Clavus exilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
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| Image of a shell of Clavus exilis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Clavus |
| Species: | C. exilis
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| Binomial name | |
| Clavus exilis (Pease, 1868)
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Description
editThe pupoid-claviform shell is small (8 mm or less). The 5½ teleoconch whorls are nearly plane and longitudinally plicately ribbed. The 15–22 axial ribs are small and close, descending from the sutures. The aperture is very short. The anal sulcus is moderately deep. The siphonal canal is short and open. The color of the shell is reddish chestnut, the ribs whitish, with a dark band below the middle of the body whorl.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off KwaZuluNatal, South Africa, and Mozambique; in the Pacific Ocean off Polynesia
References
edit- ^ a b Clavus exilis (Pease, 1868). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 September 2011.
- ^ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 206; 1884 (described as Drillia exilis)
- Pease, W. H. 1868. Description of marine gasteropodae inhabiting Polynesia. Amer. J. Conch. 3: 211–222, pI. 15
- Garrett, A. 1873. Descriptions of new species of marine shells inhabiting the South Sea island. Proc. A cad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1873: 209–231, pIs. 2–3
- Maes, V. O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 119(4): 93–127.
- R. N. Kilburn (1988), Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 4. Subfamilies Drilliinae, Crassispirinae and Strictispirinae; Ann. Natal Mus. Vol. 29(1) Pages 167–320
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
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