Clavatula debilis

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

Clavatula debilis
The shell and the protoconch of Clavatula debilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Clavatula
Species:
C. debilis
Binomial name
Clavatula debilis
(Hinds, 1843)
Synonyms
  • Clathurella debilis Hinds, 1843
  • Glyphostomoides debilis Hinds, 1843
  • Pleurotoma debilis Reeve, 1846

Description

The elongate, fusiform and acuminate shell grows to a length of 14 mm. It contains eight rounded and ribbed whorls, transversely striate. The small ribs are round. The sutures are simple. The inner lip is crenulate. The siphonal canal is of mediocre length.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Guinea; in the Strait of Macassar, Indonesia; off the Philippines, Thailand and off Zanzibar; also off Darnley Island, Torres Straits.

References
  1. Worldwide Mollusk Species Database: Clavatula debilis
  2. Hinds, R.B., Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1843, p. 39 ; The Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. Sulphur., p. 17, pl. 5, f. 16
  • "Clavatula debilis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  • Brazier, J. 1876. A list of the Pleurotomidae collected during the Chevert expedition, with the description of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 151–162
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