''Horaiclavus kilburni'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusc 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 esti ...

in the family

Horaiclavidae 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., Ka ...

.Bouchet, P. (2015). Horaiclavus kilburni Stahlschmidt, 2015. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=850541 on 2017-01-26

Description

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Province of the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

References

* Stahlschmidt P. (2015). Description of three new turrid species (Gastropoda: Conoidea) from South Africa. Miscellanea Malacologica. 7(1): 13–18 Endemic fauna of South Africa kilburni Gastropods described in 2015 {{Horaiclavidae-stub