Clavus unizonalis | |
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Apertural view of a shell of Clavus unizonalis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Drilliidae |
Genus: | Clavus |
Species: | C. unizonalis
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Binomial name | |
Clavus unizonalis (
Lamarck, 1822)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Clavus unizonalis, common name the one-zoned turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. [1]
The size of an adult shell varies between 15 mm and 26 mm. The shell is nodosely plicate, smooth, or with a few close revolving lines at the base. The color is whitish or yellowish white, the body whorl below the periphery chocolate, sometimes with a white band at the base. The color of the interior is chocolate, with an irregular white superior band. [2]
This species occurs in the Red Sea, off northern Mozambique and in the demersal zone of the tropical Indo-Pacific off Mozambique, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands; also off Australia ( Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia).
It has also been found in Pliocene strata of Papua New Guinea (age range: 5.332 to 2.588 Ma)
Clavus unizonalis | |
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Apertural view of a shell of Clavus unizonalis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Drilliidae |
Genus: | Clavus |
Species: | C. unizonalis
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Binomial name | |
Clavus unizonalis (
Lamarck, 1822)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Clavus unizonalis, common name the one-zoned turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. [1]
The size of an adult shell varies between 15 mm and 26 mm. The shell is nodosely plicate, smooth, or with a few close revolving lines at the base. The color is whitish or yellowish white, the body whorl below the periphery chocolate, sometimes with a white band at the base. The color of the interior is chocolate, with an irregular white superior band. [2]
This species occurs in the Red Sea, off northern Mozambique and in the demersal zone of the tropical Indo-Pacific off Mozambique, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands; also off Australia ( Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia).
It has also been found in Pliocene strata of Papua New Guinea (age range: 5.332 to 2.588 Ma)