Clavus groschi

Clavus groschi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Clavus groschi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Clavus
Species:
C. groschi
Binomial name
Clavus groschi
Kilburn, 1988

Description

The 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.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Indian Ocean off Mozambique.

References

  1. 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


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