Clathrodrillia flavidula
Shells of Clathrodrillia flavidula (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Clathrodrillia
Species:
C. flavidula
Binomial name
Clathrodrillia flavidula
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]
  • Brachystoma flavidula Yen, T.C. 1942
  • Clathrodrillia flavidula (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Clavatula flavidula (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Clavus flavidulus (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Clavus (Clathrodrillia) flavidulus (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Drillia flavidula Lamarck, 1822
  • Drillia lanceolata (Reeve, 1845)
  • Funa flavidula (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Inquisitor flavidula [sic] (incorrect gender ending)
  • Inquisitor flavidulus (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Pleurotoma flavidula Lamarck, 1822
  • Ptychobela flavidula (Lamarck, 1822)

Clathrodrillia flavidula, common name the javelin turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1][2]

Description

The shell is rather thin, turreted, longitudinally obliquely ribbed and crossed by revolving lines. The color of the shell is yellowish white to brown, the lighter-colored specimens sometimes indistinctly broadly fasciated with brown. Its length is 65 mm and its diameter 20 mm.[3]

Distribution

This marine species is found in the Red Sea ; off the Philippines, China and Japan; off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)

References

  1. ^ a b Clathrodrillia flavidula (Lamarck, 1822). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 September 2011.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 177; 1884 (described as Drillia flavidula)