Reishia clavigera

Reishia clavigera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[2]

Reishia clavigera
Three individuals of Thais clavigera with many egg masses
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Reishia
Species:	R. clavigera
Binomial name
Reishia clavigera (Küster, 1860)
Synonyms[1]
Purpura clavigera Küster, 1860 Thais clavigera (Küster, 1860) Purpura altispiralis Grabau & King, 1928 Purpura alveolata var. pechiliensis Grabau & King, 1928

This species has been found to be useful as an indicator of the environmental contamination levels of arsenic, copper, and zinc.

Distribution

This is an intertidal species, found on rocky shores in Malaysia, Singapore and Indo-China; also off Japan.