Clavatula decorata

Clavatula decorata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.^[1][2]

Clavatula decorata
Original drawing of a shell of Clavatula decorata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Clavatulidae
Genus:	Clavatula
Species:	C. decorata
Binomial name
Clavatula decorata G.B. Sowerby III, 1916

Description

The length of the shell attains 21 mm, its width 8 mm.

(From the original description) The fusiform shell is one of striking character. The spire is acutely turreted and contains 10 whorls. The whorls are unusually concave, with a stout prominent keel, crossed by numerous oblong somewhat oblique white tubercles or short plicae, which are rendered more conspicuous by a brown intersecting spiral line.^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Sierra Leone.