Clinura

Clinura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Clinura
Shell of a species of Clinura (specimen in the MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
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

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

Species within the genus Clinura include:

  • † Clinura calliope Brocchi, G.B., 1814
  • † Clinura circumfossa (Koenen, 1872) [2]
  • † Clinura controversa Jan
  • † Clinura generosa (Marwick, 1931)
  • † Clinura sabatorium Bellardi, 1875 [3]
  • † Clinura sopronensis Hoernes & Auinger, 1879 [4]
  • † Clinura subtrochlearis Friedberg, 1912 [5]
  • † Clinura trochlearis Hoernes, 1856
  • Clinura vitrea Sysoev, 1997[6]
Species brought into synonymy

References
  1. Clinura Bellardi, 1875. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  2. Koenen, A. von (1885) — Über eine paleocäne Fauna von Kopenhagen, I Theil; Abh. d.k. Ges. d. Wiss. zu Göttingen, Bd. 32 (80 S.)
  3. Bellardi, L. e Sacco, F. (1872—1904) — I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria; Lief. 1—30.
  4. Hoernes, R. und Auinger, M. (1879) — Die Gastropoden der Meeresablagerungen der I und II Mediterranstufe in der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie; Abh. k. k. geol. Beichsanst., 12.
  5. Friedberg, W. (1912) — Miçczaki miocenskie ziem Polskich (mollusca miocenia poloniae), Lief. 2, S. 113—240; Museum im. Dzieduszyckich, T. 14
  6. Clinura vitrea Sysoev, 1997. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  7. Clinura hosoi (Okutani, 1964). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.


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