''Clinura'' is a
genus of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
s, marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the
family Raphitomidae
Raphitomidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". ''Malacologia'' 47(1-2). . 39 ...
.
This genus was only known from fossils from the
Cenozoic
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era until 1997 when Sysoev found a specimen of ''Clinura vitrea'' off the Taninbar Islands,
Indonesia.
Species
Species within the genus ''Clinura'' include:
* † ''
Clinura calliope''
Brocchi, G.B., 1814
* † ''
Clinura circumfossa
''Clinura'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
This genus was only known from fossils from the Cenozoic
The Cenozoic ( ; ) is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million yea ...
''
(Koenen, 1872)
* † ''
Clinura controversa'' Jan
* † ''
Clinura generosa''
(Marwick, 1931)
* † ''
Clinura sabatorium''
Bellardi, 1875
* † ''
Clinura sopronensis''
Hoernes & Auinger, 1879
* † ''
Clinura subtrochlearis''
Friedberg, 1912
* † ''
Clinura trochlearis''
Hoernes, 1856
* ''
Clinura vitrea''
Sysoev, 1997
;Species brought into synonymy:
* † ''Clinura elegantissima''
(Foresti, 1868): synonym of ''
Teretia elegantissima''
(Forresti, 1868)
* ''Clinura hosoi''
(Okutani, 1964):
synonym of ''
Crassispira hosoi''
(Okutani, 1964)
* ''Clinura monochorda''
Dall, 1908: synonym of ''
Anticlinura monochorda''
(Dall, 1908) (original combination)
* ''Clinura peruviana''
Dall, 1908: synonym of ''
Anticlinura peruviana''
(Dall, 1908) (original combination)
References
External links
Beets, C., 1942b. Notizen über ''Thatcheria'' Angas, ''Clinura'' Bellardi und ''Clinuropsis'' Vincent. Leidsche Geol. Meded., vol. 13, pp. 356-367A.J. Charig, The Gastropod Genus Thatcheria and its Relationships; Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), vol. 7 # 9 (1963) Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308*
Raphitomidae
Gastropod genera
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