Clanculus edentulus

Clanculus edentulus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the bottom snails.^[1][2]

Clanculus edentulus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Clanculus
Species:	C. edentulus
Binomial name
Clanculus edentulus (A. Adams, 1853)
Synonyms
Euchelus edentulus A. Adams, 1853 (original combination)

OBIS (the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database) declares this species an Incertae Sedis (with uncertain taxonomic placement ).^[3]

Description

The shell has an orbiculate-conoid shape. It is dirty red with white spots. The transverse ribs are granulated. The whorls are slightly convex. The umbilical margin is subcrenulate. The top of the columella is plicate. The columella lacks a denticle and has three tubercles at its base. The inner lip is subsulcate.^[4]