Clavus herberti | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Drilliidae |
Genus: | Clavus |
Species: | C. herberti
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Binomial name | |
Clavus herberti (Kilburn, 1988)
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Synonyms [1] | |
Tylotiella herberti Kilburn, 1988 (original combination) |
Clavus herberti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. [1]
The length of the brownish orange shell attains 16.4 mm, its diameter 6.1 mm. The strongly patterned, claviform shell has a rather low spire and a proportionally large and blunt protoconch. It shows fine and numerous spiral threads. [2]
This marine species occurs off East London - S KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.