Clavatula taxea, common name the yew turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.
The size of an adult shell varies between 50 mm and 75 mm. The color of the shell is yellowish brown, nexuously lineated with chestnut, under a thick olivaceous brown epidermis. The whorls are constricted above, slightly nodulosely longitudinally plicate below, and flexuously longitudinally striate. The color of the aperture is brownish.[1]
This marine species occurs off False Bay to northeast of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa