Clio pyramidata

Clio pyramidata is a species of sea butterfly, a floating and swimming sea snail, a pelagic marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cliidae.^[3]

Clio pyramidata
Clio pyramidata (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Euopisthobranchia
Order:	Pteropoda
Family:	Cliidae
Genus:	Clio
Species:	C. pyramidata
Binomial name
Clio pyramidata Linnaeus, 1767[1]
Synonyms[2]
Clio caudata Linnaeus, 1767 Hyalaea lanceolata Lesueur, 1813 Cleodora brownii de Blainville, 1825 Cleodora exacuta Gould, 1852 Clio occidentalis Dall, 1871 Clio pyramidata var. convexa Boas, 1886

Formae

• Forma Clio pyramidata f. lanceolata Lesueur, 1813^[4]
• Forma Clio pyramidata f. pyramidata Linnaeus, 1767
• Forma Clio pyramidata f. tyrrhenica A.W. Janssen, 2012

Distribution

This species has a wide distribution: subtropical.,^[5] European waters, the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean (Azores, Cape Verde), the Northwest Atlantic (Gulf of Maine), the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and off New Zealand.

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 21 mm.^[6]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.^[6] Maximum recorded depth is 3718 m.^[6]

References

1. Linnaeus C. (1766-1767). Systema Naturae. Editio duodecima. 1. Regnum Animale. 1 & 2 Holmiae, Laurentii Salvii pp. 1-532 [1766], pp. 533-1327 [1767].
2. "Clio pyramidata". CLEMAM, accessed 9 February 2011.
3. Clio pyramidata Linnaeus, 1767. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 January 2019.
4. Gofas, S. (2011). Clio pyramidata Linnaeus, 1767. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139033 on 2011-02-09
5. Tsurumi M., Mackas D. L., Whitney F. A., DiBacco C., Galbraith M. D. & Wong C. S. (2005). "Pteropods, eddies, carbon flux, and climate variability in the Alaska Gyre". Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 52(7-8): 1037-1053. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2005.02.005, PDF Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine.
6. Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.

• 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
• Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp
• Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
• Willan, R. (2009). Opisthobranchia (Mollusca). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
• Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
• Janssen A.W. (2012) Late Quaternary to Recent holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from bottom samples of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: systematics, morphology. Bollettino Malacologico 48 (suppl. 9): 1-105

External links

• Clio pyramidata at Marine Species Identification Portal