Clathrodrillia flavidula

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

Clathrodrillia flavidula
Shells of Clathrodrillia flavidula (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
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)

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)