Clavatula taxea

Clavatula taxea, common name the yew turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.^[1]

Clavatula taxea
Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula taxea (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Clavatulidae
Genus:	Clavatula
Species:	C. taxea
Binomial name
Clavatula taxea (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms[1]
Clavatula rufanensis Turton, W.H., 1932 Clavatula taxus affinis Chemnitz, J.H., 1786 Clionella taxea (Röding, 1798) Clionella taxus Chemnitz, 1786 Murex taxus Dillwyn, 1817 Pleurotoma taxus G. B. Sowerby I, 1825 Turris taxea Röding, 1798

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 50 mm and 75 mm. The color of the shell is yellowish brown, nexuously lineated with chestnut, under a thick olivaceous brown epidermis. The whorls are constricted above, slightly nodulosely longitudinally plicate below, and flexuously longitudinally striate. The color of the aperture is brownish.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off False Bay to northeast of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa