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Reishia clavigera

Synonyms: Purpura altispiralis; Purpura alveolata var. pechiliensis; Purpura clavigera (homotypic); Thais clavigera

Wikipedia Abstract

Reishia clavigera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. This species has been found to be useful as an indicator of the environmental contamination levels of arsenic, copper, and zinc.
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♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0