''Makiyamaia orthopleura'' 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 ...

mollusk in the family

Clavatulidae Clavatulidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. The family is not well differentiated morphologically. Clavatulidae was raised, based on cladistic analysis, from subfamily to the family ...

Description

The length of the shell attains 51 mm, its width 15.2 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...

and Transkei, South Africa

References

* Tucker JK. ''Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca, Gastropoda)'' Zootaxa. 2004;682:1–1295
R.N. Kilburn, Fedosov A.E. & Olivera B.M. (2012) ''Revision of the genus Turris Batsch, 1789 (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae) with the description of six new species.'' Zootaxa 3244: 1–58

External links

* Endemic fauna of South Africa Clavatulidae Gastropods described in 1983 {{Clavatulidae-stub