Clavus formosus

Clavus formosus
	Shell of Clavus formosus (specimen in the MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Clavus
Species:	C. formosus
Binomial name
	Clavus formosus; (Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms[1]
	Clavus formosa (Reeve, 1846); Pleurotoma formosa Reeve, 1846; Pleurotoma tessellata Reeve, L.A., 1846 (treated by Reeve as a secondary homonym of Clathurella tessellata Hinds, 1843; Pleurotoma formosa is a replacement name);

Clavus formosus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Description

Its description is almost identical to Clavus laeta (Hinds, 1843)

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Red Sea and the tropical Pacific Ocean off the Philippines.[2] and off Papua New Guinea .

Reeve, L.A. (1843–46) Monograph of the Genus Pleurotoma. Conchologia Iconica, or Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals. Vol. 1. Reeve, London. pls 1–18 (1843); pl 19 (1844); pls 20–33 (1845); pls 34–40 + index and errata (1846)
Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
Kilburn R.N., Fedosov A. & Kantor Yu.I. (2014) The shallow-water New Caledonia Drilliidae of genus Clavus Montfort, 1810 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea). Zootaxa 3818(1): 1–69.

Two shells of Clavus formosus

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