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Calliclava pallida Sowerby, 1834

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Drilliidae »  genus Calliclava

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Calliclava pallida

Author: Keen, M.

Calliclava pallida

Author: Reeve, L.A.

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Description

The slender shell is white, with numerous sinuous axial ribs that extend across the rounded whorls and base. The most characteristic feature is the relative height of the spire, the aperture being only one-fourth to one-fifth the height of the shell. Length, 25 mm; diameter, 7.5 mm. Gulf of Tehuantepec to Costa Rica, 10 to 25 m.
Keen, A.M., 1971; Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Lower California to Colombia
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Calliclava pallida (Sowerby, 1834)]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013
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