Paraclione

Paraclione
Paraclione
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Euopisthobranchia
clade Gymnosomata
Superfamily: Clionoidea
Family: Clionidae
Genus: Paraclione
Tesch, 1903
Species

See text.

Paraclione is a genus of "sea angels", small floating sea slugs, pelagic marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.

They are very small and gelatinous, mostly transparent with only have a shell during their embryonic stage. They can be found in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Species

  • Paraclione flavescens Gegenbaur, 1855 (synonyms : Clionina aurantiaca Franc, 1951  ; Clionina flavescens Franc, 1951 )
  • Paraclione longicaudata Souleyet, 1852 (synonyms : Clio longicaudata Souleyet, 1851 ; Clionina longicaudata Souleyet, 1851)

See also

References

  • Souleyet. 1851. Ordre des Ptéropodes. Journal de Conchyliologie 2: 28-38
  • 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
  • Rolán, E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, p. 195

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