Clea (gastropod)

Clea (gastropod)
Clea
A live individual of Clea helena
A live individual of Clea helena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Clea
A. Adams, 1855[1]

Clea is a genus of freshwater snails with operculums, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks, a large family, almost all of the rest of which are marine.[2]

Contents

Species

Species within the genus Clea include:

  • Clea bangueyensis Smith, 1895
  • Clea bocki Brot
  • Clea bocourti (Brot, 1876)[citation needed]
  • Clea cambojiensis (Reeve, 1861)
  • Clea fusca (H. Adams, 1862)
  • Clea helena (Meder in Philippi, 1847)
  • Clea hidalgoi (Crosse, 1886)
  • Clea jullieni (Deshayes)
  • Clea nigricans A. Adams, 1855
  • Clea scalarina (Deshayes in Deshayes & Jullien, 1876)
  • Clea spinosa Temcharoen, 1971
  • Clea wykoffi Brandt, 1974

Distribution

This genus occurs in Asia.

Feeding habits

Like all snails in the clade Neogastropoda, snails in this genus are carnivorous.

References

  1. ^ Adams A. (1855). Proc. zool. Soc. London 23: 119.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P.; Fraussen, K. (2010). Clea H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=490505 on 2010-12-30


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