Clione
{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
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| image = Sea angel.jpg
| image_caption = Clione limacina
| taxon = Clione
| authority = Pallas, 1774Pallas P. S. (1774). Spic. Zool. 10: 28.
| subdivision_ranks = Species
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| synonyms= Trichocyclus Eschscholtz, 1825
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Clione is a genus of small, floating sea slugs, pelagic marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clionidae, the sea angels.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
Clione is the type genus of the family Clionidae.{{Bouchet 2005}}
Species
Species within the genus Clione include:
- Clione antarctica (Smith, 1902)
- Clione elegantissima (Dall, 1871)
- Clione limacina (Phipps, 1774)
- Clione okhotensis Yamazaki & Kuwahara, 2017{{cite journal | last1 = Yamazaki | first1 = Tomoyasu | last2 = Kuwahara | first2 = Takashi | title = 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 = Journal of Molluscan Studies | volume = 83 | issue = 1 | year = 2017 | pages = 19–26 | issn=0260-1230 | doi=10.1093/mollus/eyw032| doi-access = free }}
References
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- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). {{ISBN|0-915826-22-4}}. XII, 195 pp.
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
Further reading
- Gilmer R. W. & Lalli C. M. (1990). "Bipolar variation in Clione, a gymnosomatous pteropod". Am. Malacol. Union Bull. 8(1): 67-75.
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