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Clavatula milleti

Clavatula milleti
Clavatula milleti 001.jpg
Apertural view of a shell of Clavatula milleti (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Clavatula
Species: C. milleti
Binomial name
Clavatula milleti
(Petit de la Saussaye, 1851)
Synonyms
  • Fusus milleti Petit de la Saussaye, 1851 (original combination)
  • Fusus subgranulatus Petit de la Saussaye, 1851
  • Pusionella milleti milleti (Petit de la Saussaye, 1851)

Clavatula milleti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.

The size of an adult shell varies between 15 mm and 55 mm.

The color of the shell is whitish, or yellowish flesh-color, or brown. It is more or less decussated by longitudinal and revolving engraved lines, sometimes forming granulations especially on the spire The revolving lines are prominent on the body whorl, where the longitudinal ones are usually subobsolete.

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean along West Africa (Senegal)


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