Clavatula taxea, common name the yew turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.

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.

[2] This marine species occurs off False Bay to northeast of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa