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