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''Paraclavatula delphinae'' is a species of
sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the family
Clavatulidae Clavatulidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. The family is not well differentiated morphologically. Clavatulidae was raised, based on cladistic analysis, from subfamily to the family ...
.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Paraclavatula delphinae (Nolf, 2008). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1250501 on 2023-08-02


Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 35 mm.


Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean between Ghana and Democratic Republic of the Congo.


References


Nolf, F. (2008). ''Two new turrid species from West Africa: Clavatula delphinae and Clavatula pseudomystica (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Clavatulidae).'' Neptunea 7(2): 6-13


External links

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Kantor Y.I., Horro J., Rolán E. & Puillandre N. (2018). Paraclavatula (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Clavatulidae), a new genus with a distinctive radula type from West Africa. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 84(3): 275-284
delphinae Gastropods described in 2008 {{clavatulidae-stub