Clavatula debilis

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| taxon =Clavatula debilis

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| image_caption = The shell and the protoconch of Clavatula debilis

| authority =(Hinds, 1843)

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  • Clathurella debilis Hinds, 1843
  • Glyphostomoides debilis Hinds, 1843
  • Pleurotoma debilis Reeve, 1846

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Clavatula debilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/HtmSpecies/2115504110.htm Worldwide Mollusk Species Database: Clavatula debilis]

Description

The elongate, fusiform and acuminate shell grows to a length of 14 mm. It contains eight rounded and ribbed whorls, transversely striate. The small ribs are round. The sutures are simple. The inner lip is crenulate. The siphonal canal is of mediocre length.[https://books.google.com/books?id=MFBJAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA39 Hinds, R.B., Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1843, p. 39 ; The Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. Sulphur., p. 17, pl. 5, f. 16]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Guinea; in the Strait of Macassar, Indonesia; off the Philippines, Thailand and off Zanzibar; also off Darnley Island, Torres Straits.

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