Clypeostoma

Clypeostoma

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Seguenzioidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Gastropoda Subclassis: Vetigastropoda Ordo: Seguenziida Superfamilia: Seguenzioidea

Familia: Chilodontidae
Genus: Clypeostoma
Species: C. elongatum – C. meteorae – C. nortoni – C. reticulatum – C. salpinx – C. townsendianum

Name

• Clypeostoma Herbert, 2012: 399

Type species: Turcica salpinx Barnard, 1964 (type by original designation).

Etymology: From Latin clypeus (a shield) and Greek stoma (a mouth); in reference to the shield-like inductural callus.

References

• 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.