Clavatula caerulea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.
Description The length of the shell attains 20 mm. The shell is narrowly turreted and strongly keeled. The keel is tuberculated, with revolving, sometimes granulous striae below it. The granules are more apparent at the base. The color of the shell is bluish, the tubercles white, with the interstices purplish.G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
Distribution This marine species occurs off Angola.
References
Weinkauff. Conch. Cab., p. 34, pi. vii, f. 4–6, 23 Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp. Nolf F. (2011) Rehabilitation of Clavatula smithi Knudsen, 1952 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Clavatulidae). Neptunea 10(2): 5–15.
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