Clinura calliope

Clinura calliope is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Clinura calliope
Shells of Clinura calliope (specimens at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Clinura
Species:
C. calliope
Binomial name
Clinura calliope
(Brocchi, 1814)
Synonyms
  • Murex (Pleurotoma) calliope Brocchi, 1814 (original combination)
  • Surcula (Clinura) calliope (Brocchi, 1814)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 27 mm and 42 mm.

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Miocene strata of Tuscany, Italy; also in Lower Pliocene strata near Antibes, France and in Pliocene strata in Málaga, Spain.

References

  • Brocchi, Giambattista. Conchiologia fossile subapennina: con osservazioni geologiche sugli Apennini e sul suolo adiacente. Vol. 2. Stamp. Reale, 1814.
  • Cossmann (M.), 1896 Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée (2ème livraison), p. 1-179
  • Vera-Peláez, José Luis. "Revisión de la familia Turridae, excepto Clavatulinae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) en el Plioceno de las cuencas de Estepona, Malaga y Velez Malaga (Malaga, S Espana) con la descripcion de 26 especies nuevas." Pliocenica, Publicaciones del Museo Municipal Paleontológico de Estepona 2 (2002): 176–262.


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