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Clinura calliope

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Clinura calliope
Shells of Clinura calliope (specimens at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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)

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

Description

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

Distribution

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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

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  • 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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