Clypeostoma

Clypeostoma
Shell of Clypeostoma adelon (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Seguenzioidea
Family:	Chilodontaidae
Genus:	Clypeostoma Herbert, 2012 [1]
Type species
Turcica salpinx Barnard, 1964

Clypeostoma is a genus of mostly small deep water sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chilodontaidae. ^[2]

Species in this genus were previously categorized under the genus Agathodonta Cossmann, 1918

Species

Species within the genus Clypeostoma include: ^[2]

• Clypeostoma adelon Vilvens, 2017
• Clypeostoma cancellatum (Schepman, 1908)
• Clypeostoma cecileae (Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006)
• Clypeostoma chranos Vilvens, 2017
• Clypeostoma elongatum (Vilvens, 2001)
• Clypeostoma meteorae (Neubert, 1998)
• Clypeostoma nortoni (McLean, 1984)
• Clypeostoma reticulatum Herbert, 2012
• Clypeostoma salpinx (Barnard, 1964)
• Clypeostoma townsendianum (Melvill & Standen, 1903)

References

1. Herbert D.G. (2012) A revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of southern Africa and the south-western Indian Ocean. African Invertebrates, 53(2): 381–502. (6 November 2012). World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 2013-04-14.
2. Bouchet, P. (2012). Clypeostoma Herbert, 2012. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=710010 on 2013-04-14

• Poppe, G., Tagaro, S. & Dekker, H., 2006. The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippines Islands. Visaya: 1–128, sér. Supplément 2
• Vilvens C., 2017. New species and new records of Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) from the Pacific Ocean. Novapex 18: 1-67, sér. HS 11

External links

• World Register of Marine Species
• Herbert, D. G. (2012). A Revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of Southern Africa and the South-Western Indian Ocean. African Invertebrates. 53(2): 381-502.