Clavus groschi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
| Clavus groschi | |
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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. groschi
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| Binomial name | |
| Clavus groschi Kilburn, 1988
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 22.5 mm, its diameter 9.5 mm. Characteristic for this claviform shell is that the dark median zone is bordered posteriorly by an interrupted brown line.
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in the demersal zone of the Indian Ocean off Mozambique and Madagascar.
References
edit- ^ a b Clavus groschi Kilburn, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
- Kilburn R.N. (1988). Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 4. Subfamilies Drillinae, Crassispirinae and Strictispirinae. Annals of the Natal Museum. 29(1): 167–320. page(s): 190, figs 7, 97–100
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295