''Clavatula smithi'' is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...
of
sea snail, a marine
gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...
in the
family
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Clavatulidae.
Description
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off
West Africa
West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mau ...
.
References
* Knudsen, J. "Marine prosobranchs of tropical West Africa collected by the Atlantide Expedition, 1945-46." Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening I Kjobenhavn 114 (1952): 129–185.
Nolf F. (2011), ''Rehabilitation of Clavatula smithi Knudsen, 1952 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Clavatulidae)'', Neptunea 10 (2)
smithi
Gastropods described in 1952
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