''Clio pyramidata'' is a
species
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of
sea butterfly
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, a floating and swimming
sea snail, a
pelagic
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gastropod mollusk
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in the family
Cliidae
The family Cliidae is a taxonomic group of small floating sea snails, pelagic marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.Bouchet, P. (2011). Cliidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=tax ...
.
Formae
* Forma ''Clio pyramidata'' f. ''lanceolata''
Lesueur, 1813[Gofas, S. (2011). ''Clio pyramidata'' Linnaeus, 1767. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139033 on 2011-02-09]
* Forma ''Clio pyramidata'' f. ''pyramidata''
Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, t ...
, 1767
* Forma ''Clio pyramidata'' f. ''tyrrhenica''
A.W. Janssen, 2012
Distribution
This species has a wide distribution:
subtropical.,
[Tsurumi M., Mackas D. L., Whitney F. A., DiBacco C., Galbraith M. D. & Wong C. S. (2005). "Pteropods, eddies, carbon flux, and climate variability in the Alaska Gyre". ''Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography'' 52(7-8): 1037-1053. ]
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. European waters, the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean (Azores, Cape Verde), the Northwest Atlantic (Gulf of Maine), the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and off New Zealand.
Description
The maximum recorded
shell
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length is 21 mm.
[Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". '' PLoS ONE'' 5(1): e8776. .]
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.
Maximum recorded depth is 3718 m.
References
* Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). ''European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification''. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
Pollock, L.W. (1998). ''A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America''. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp* Rolán E., 2005. ''Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago''. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
* Willan, R. (2009). ''Opisthobranchia (Mollusca)''. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
* Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. ''Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico'', Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
* Janssen A.W. (2012) ''Late Quaternary to Recent holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from bottom samples of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: systematics, morphology.'' Bollettino Malacologico 48 (suppl. 9): 1-105
External links
''Clio pyramidata''at Marine Species Identification Portal
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Cavolinioidea
Molluscs of the Atlantic Ocean
Molluscs of the Pacific Ocean
Molluscs of the Mediterranean Sea
Gastropods of Cape Verde
Gastropods described in 1767
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus