Clavatula taxea
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| image_caption = Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula taxea (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
| authority = (Röding, 1798)
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- 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
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Clavatula taxea, common name the yew turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.{{WRMS species|215593|Clavatula taxea (Röding, 1798)||8 July 2012}}
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 nodulosely longitudinally plicate below, and flexuously longitudinally striate. The color of the aperture is brownish.George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 231; 1884 (described as Clavatula taxus)
Distribution
This marine species occurs off False Bay to northeast of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
References
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- 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
External links
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- {{Gastropods.com|key=4|id=8514|title=Clionella taxea|access-date=22 August 2011}}
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