Clavatula taxea, common name the yew turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1]
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Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula taxea (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Clavatulidae |
Genus: | Clavatula |
Species: | C. taxea
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Binomial name | |
Clavatula taxea (Röding, 1798)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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The size of an adult shell varies between 50 mm and 75 mm. The color of the shell is yellowish brown, nexuously lineated with chestnut, under a thick olivaceous brown epidermis. The whorls are constricted above, slightly nodulosely longitudinally plicate below, and flexuously longitudinally striate. The color of the aperture is brownish.[2]
This marine species occurs off False Bay to northeast of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa