Clione

Clione
Clione limacina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Euopisthobranchia
Order: Pteropoda
Family: Clionidae
Subfamily: Clioninae
Genus: Clione
Pallas, 1774
Synonyms

Trichocyclus Eschscholtz, 1825

Clione is a genus of small, floating sea slugs, pelagic marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clionidae, the sea angels.

Clione is the type genus of the family Clionidae.

Species

Species within the genus Clione include:

References

  1. ↑ Pallas P. S. (1774). Spic. Zool. 10: 28.
  2. 1 2 Gofas, S. (2012). Clione. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137793 on 2012-07-23
  3. ↑ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  4. ↑ Yamazaki, T., Shimada, H. & Zhang, J. (2025). “A New cryptic Species of Clione (Gastropoda) in deep waters of the Japan Sea (East Sea) and shallow waters of the southern Okhotsk Sea”. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. In Press, Corrected Proof. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2025.10.002.
  5. ↑ Yamazaki, Tomoyasu; Kuwahara, Takashi (2017). "A new species of Clione distinguished from sympatric C. limacina (Gastropoda: Gymnosomata) in the southern Okhotsk Sea, Japan, with remarks on the taxonomy of the genus". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 83 (1): 19–26. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyw032. ISSN 0260-1230.

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