Clypeostoma
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| Clypeostoma | |
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| 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
