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Horaiclavidae
Sign in to saveHoraiclavidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyHoraiclavidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 133
- With media
- 83
- Family
- Horaiclavidae
- Collections
- TMAG, AM, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Australia, New Caledonia, South Africa, Nouvelle-Caledonie, French Polynesia
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Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
In 2011 this family was split off from the family Pseudomelatomidae (formerly the subfamily Crassispirinae McLean, 1971) by Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. in their publication "A new operational classification of the Conoidea". It forms a clade together with the family Clavatulidae. It has many characters in common with the family Pseudomelatomidae, except the smaller shell with a low spire, the short siphonal canal and a weak or absent spiral sculpture. The radular formula is 1-0-0-0-1, but some species in this family lack a radula.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Horaiclavidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.