Common creeper | |
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A Shell of Rhinoclavis vertagus. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
Family: | Cerithiidae |
Subfamily: | Cerithiinae |
Genus: | Rhinoclavis |
Subgenus: | Rhinoclavis |
Species: | R. vertagus |
Binomial name | |
Rhinoclavis vertagus (Linnaeus, 1767) |
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Rhinoclavis vertagus, common name the common creeper, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae, the ceriths.
The length of the shell varies between 40 mm and 80 mm.
This species occurs in Australia and the Philippines.; in the Indo-west Pacific, from east Africa to Vanuatu