Clione

Clione
Clione
Clione limacina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Euopisthobranchia
clade Gymnosomata

Superfamily: Clionoidea
Family: Clionidae
Subfamily: Clioninae
Genus: Clione
Pallas, 1774[1]

Clione is a genus of small floating sea slug[disambiguation needed ]s, pelagic marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clionidae, the sea angels.

Clione is the type genus of the family Clionidae.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Clione include:

References

  1. ^ Pallas P. S. (1774). Spic. Zool. 10: 28.
  2. ^ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst. 

Further reading

  • Gilmer R. W. & Lalli C. M. (1990). "Bipolar variation in Clione, a gymnosomatous pteropod". Am. Malacol. Union Bull. 8(1): 67-75.