Clinura
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| Clinura | |
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| Shell of a species of Clinura (specimen in the MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Clinura Bellardi, 1875 |
| Type species | |
| Clinura calliope Brocchi, G.B., 1814 | |
Clinura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
This genus was only known from fossils from the Cenozoic era until 1997 when Sysoev found a specimen of Clinura vitrea off the Taninbar Islands, Indonesia.
