''Clavatoma'' is an extinct
genus
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of
sea snails, marine
gastropod mollusk
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s in the
family
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Pseudomelatomidae
Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda ( Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
In 1995 Kantor elevated the subfamily Pseudomelatominae ...
.
[MolluscaBase (2018). Clavatoma Powell, 1942 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828261 on 2018-06-02]
Species
* † ''
Clavatoma pulchra''
Powell, 1942
References
* Powell, Arthur William Baden. "The New Zealand recent and fossil Mollusca of the family Turridae with general notes on Turrid nomenclature and systematics." (1942).
Pseudomelatomidae
Prehistoric gastropod genera
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