Clavatula caerulea
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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| taxon =Clavatula caerulea
| image = Clavatula caerulea 001.jpg
| image_caption = Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula caerulea (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
| authority =(Weinkauff & Kobelt, 1875)
| synonyms =
- Drillia coerulea H.C. Weinkauff, 1875
- Pleurotoma caerulea Weinkauff & Kobelt, 1875
- Surcula coerulea Weinkauff
- Surcula pyramidata Kiener
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Clavatula caerulea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.{{WRMS species|433247|Clavatula caerulea (Weinkauff & Kobelt, 1875)||4 April 2010}}
Description
The length of the shell attains 20 mm. The shell is narrowly turreted and strongly keeled. The keel is tuberculated, with revolving, sometimes granulous striae below it. The granules are more apparent at the base. The color of the shell is bluish, the tubercles white, with the interstices purplish.[https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Angola.
References
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- Weinkauff. Conch. Cab., p. 34, pi. vii, f. 4–6, 23
- Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp.
- Nolf F. (2011) Rehabilitation of Clavatula smithi Knudsen, 1952 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Clavatulidae). Neptunea 10(2): 5–15.
- {{cite journal |author1=P. Bouchet |author2=Yu. I. Kantor |author3=A. Sysoev |author4=N. Puillandre |year=2011 |title=A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda) |journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies |volume=77 |issue=3 |pages=273–308 |doi=10.1093/mollus/eyr017|doi-access=free }}
External links
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- {{Gastropods.com|key=3|id=41493|title=Clavatula caerulea|access-date=20 August 2011}}
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