Clanculus largillierti

Clanculus largillierti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.^[2][3]

Clanculus largillierti
Drawing showing a shell of Clanculus largillierti
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Clanculus
Species:	C. largillierti
Binomial name
Clanculus largillierti (Philippi, 1849)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Clanculus (Clanculus) largillierti (Philippi, 1849) Trochus largillierti Philippi, 1849

Description

The height of the shell attains 14 mm, its diameter 16 mm. The perforate shell has a conoid shape with an acute apex and 6½ whorls. The first whorl is rosy, the following whorls convex, grayish, spotted with white and black at the narrow sutures. They are spirally lirate with numerous granulose lirae, 8 to 10 on the penultimate whorl. The body whorl is rounded, concentrically lirate beneath with 8 to 10 lirae, gray and brown articulated. The oblique aperture is rhomboidal. The lip is dentate above. The basal margin is plicate. The oblique columella is dentate at its base. The parietal callus is wrinkled. The umbilicus is bordered by strong white plicae.^[4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Réunion.