Clavatula taxea

Clavatula taxea, common name the yew turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1]

Clavatula taxea
Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula taxea (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Clavatula
Species:
C. taxea
Binomial name
Clavatula taxea
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clavatula rufanensis Turton, W.H., 1932
  • Clavatula taxus affinis Chemnitz, J.H., 1786
  • Clionella taxea (Röding, 1798)
  • Clionella taxus Chemnitz, 1786
  • Murex taxus Dillwyn, 1817
  • Pleurotoma taxus G. B. Sowerby I, 1825
  • Turris taxea Röding, 1798

Description

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 nodulously longitudinally plicate below, and flexuously longitudinally striate. The color of the aperture is brownish.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off False Bay to northeast of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

References
  1. Clavatula taxea (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 July 2012.
  2. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 231; 1884 (described as Clavatula taxus)
  • Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 116
  • Kilburn, R.N. (1985). Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 2. Subfamily Clavatulinae. Ann. Natal Mus. 26(2), 417–470
  • "Clionella taxea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
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