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) calliopeBrocchi, 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]

Contents

• Description
• Distribution
• References
• External links

Description

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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.

External links

• MNHN, Paris: Surcula (Clinura) calliope
• Beets, C., 1942b. Notizen über Thatcheria Angas, Clinura Bellardi und Clinuropsis Vincent. Leidsche Geol. Meded., vol. 13, pp. 356-367

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