Clavatula bimarginata
| Clavatula bimarginata | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula bimarginata (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clavatulidae |
| Genus: | Clavatula |
| Species: | C. bimarginata |
| Binomial name | |
| Clavatula bimarginata (Lamarck, 1822) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pleurotoma bimarginata Lamarck, 1822 | |
Clavatula bimarginata, common name the two-edged turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 18 mm and 60 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Mauritania to South Africa.
References
- 1 2 Clavatula bimarginata (Lamarck, 1822). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- Lamarck, Animaux sans vertèbres., VII, p. 91.
- Wolff, W.J.; Duiven, P.; Esselink, P.; Gueve, A. (1993). Biomass of macrobenthic tidal flat fauna of the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania. Hydrobiologia 258(1-3): 151-163
- P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
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