Clathrodrillia flavidula, common name the javelin turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1][2]
Description
The shell is rather thin, turreted, longitudinally obliquely ribbed and crossed by revolving lines. The color of the shell is yellowish white to brown, the lighter-colored specimens sometimes indistinctly broadly fasciated with brown. Its length is 65 mm and its diameter 20 mm.[3]
Distribution
This marine species is found in the Red Sea ; off the Philippines, China and Japan; off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)
References
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- Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.
- Kosuge, S. 1992. Report on the family Turridae collected along the north-western coast of Australia (Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 2(10): pls 58–59, text figs 1–24
- Wells, F.E. 1994. A revision of the Recent Australian species of the turrid genera Inquisitor and Ptychobela. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 15: 71–102
- Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
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