Clinura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
Clinura | |
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Shell of a species of Clinura (specimen in the MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Raphitomidae |
Genus: | Clinura Bellardi, 1875 |
Type species | |
Clinura calliope Brocchi, G.B., 1814
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This genus was only known from fossils from the Cenozoic era until 1997 when Sysoev found a specimen of Clinura vitrea off the Taninbar Islands, Indonesia.
Species within the genus Clinura include: