Claremontiella
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| Claremontiella | |
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| Shell of Claremontiella nodulosa (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Ergalataxinae |
| Genus: | Claremontiella Houart, Zuccon & Puillandre, 2019 |
| Type species | |
| Purpura nodulosa C. B. Adams, 1845 | |
Claremontiella is a genus of small, predatory sea snails, related to the genera Tenguella and Muricodrupa. Its members are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
In 2013, genetic analysis indicated that Morula nodulosa was not closely related to the main group of Morula species, but rather was sister to a Tenguella–Muricodrupa clade.[2] In response, the new genus Claremontiella was proposed in 2019, including C. nodulosa as type species, its close relative C. consanguinea,[a] and a newly-described species: C. adiakritos.[3]: 39–44
Claremontiella is named in honor of researcher Martine Claremont.[3]: 40
