Toxiclionella impages

Toxiclionella impages
Apertural view of a shell of Toxiclionella impages
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Toxiclionella
Species: T. impages
Binomial name
Toxiclionella impages
(Adams & Reeve, 1848)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia impages Adams & Reeve, 1848
  • Pleurotoma impages Adams & Reeve, 1848

Toxiclionella impages is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1] [2]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 50 mm. The shell is flexuously, narrowly ribbed or plicate. The plicae extend to the suture, but not prominent. The color of the shell is yellowish brown. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Agulhas Bank, South Africa.

References

  1. 1 2 Toxiclionella impages (Adams & Reeve, 1848).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  3. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI, p. 184; 1884 (described as Drillia impages)
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