Clypeostoma

Clypeostoma
Shell of Clypeostoma adelon (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Seguenzioidea
Family:	Chilodontaidae
Genus:	Clypeostoma Herbert, 2012
Type species
Turcica salpinx Barnard, 1964

Clypeostoma is a genus of mostly small deep water sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chilodontaidae.

Species in this genus were previously categorized under the genus Agathodonta Cossmann, 1918

Species

Species within the genus Clypeostoma include:

• Clypeostoma adelon Vilvens, 2017
• Clypeostoma cancellatum (Schepman, 1908)
• Clypeostoma cecileae (Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006)
• Clypeostoma chranos Vilvens, 2017
• Clypeostoma elongatum (Vilvens, 2001)
• Clypeostoma meteorae (Neubert, 1998)
• Clypeostoma nortoni (McLean, 1984)
• Clypeostoma reticulatum Herbert, 2012
• Clypeostoma salpinx (Barnard, 1964)
• Clypeostoma townsendianum (Melvill & Standen, 1903)

References

• Poppe, G., Tagaro, S. & Dekker, H., 2006. The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippines Islands. Visaya: 1–128, sér. Supplément 2
• Vilvens C., 2017. New species and new records of Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) from the Pacific Ocean. Novapex 18: 1-67, sér. HS 11

External links

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• World Register of Marine Species
• Herbert, D. G. (2012). A Revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of Southern Africa and the South-Western Indian Ocean. African Invertebrates. 53(2): 381-502.