Clavatula mystica

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

Clavatula mystica
Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula mystica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Clavatulidae
Genus:	Clavatula
Species:	C. mystica
Binomial name
Clavatula mystica (Reeve, 1843)
Synonyms[1]
Clavatula sacerdos (Reeve, 1845) · Pleurotoma mystica Reeve, 1843 Pleurotoma sacerdos Reeve, 1845 ·

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 18 mm and 47 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from the Western Sahara to Ghana; also off the Canary Islands, Ivory Coast and North Angola.^[3]