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Clione limacina (Phipps, 1774) 
AphiaID: 139178

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Gymnosomata (Order) > Clionoidea (Superfamily) > Clionidae (Family) > Clione (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Clione Pallas, 1774
Synonymised
taxa
  Clio borealis (Pallas, 1774)
Sources  basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details]

additional source: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details]

additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

additional source: Turgeon, D.D., J.F. Quinn Jr., A.E. Bogan, E.V. Coan, F.G. Hochberg, W.G. Lyons, P.M. Mikkelsen, R.J. Neves, C.F.E. Roper, G. Rosenberg, B. Roth, A. Scheltema, F.G. Thompson, M. Vecchione and J.D. Williams. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic inv [details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch gewone vlerkslak  [details]
Dutch vlerkslak  [details]
English common clione  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Saint Andrews [details]
Wimereux (not certain[details]
Links To CLEMAM
To GenBank
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Barcode of Life (22 barcodes)
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: generally for group, planktonic and minute detrital food items through either suspension or deposit feeding [details]

Distribution: Arctic seas to North Carolina; Alaska-Canada-Northern Europe [details]

Habitat: upper epipelagic and glacial  [details]

Reproduction: sexes are separate but are seldom conspicuouslydifferent externally, simultaneous hermaphrodites yet self-fertilization is prevented due to various morphological, physiological, or behavioral mechanisms; generally, marine gastropods shed their eggs [details]
Image 
Amazing Diversity. Marine life of Antarctica - From the surface to the abyssal plain.
Amazing Diversity. Marine life of Antarctica - From the surface to the abyssal plain.
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2009). Clione limacina (Phipps, 1774). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139178 on 2010-09-02
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