Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Pteropoda > Suborder Euthecosomata > Superfamily Cavolinioidea > Family Cliidae > Genus Clio

Clio cuspidata (Bosc, 1801)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Clio*	Linnaeus, 1767	accepted genus name
*Balantium*	Children, 1823	synonym
*Cleodora*	F. Péron & Lesueur, 1810	synonym
*Clio (Balantium)*	Children, 1823	synonym
*Hyalaea (Cleodora)*	F. Péron & Lesueur, 1810	synonym

Species group names

*Cleodora lessonii*	Rang & A. Férussac, 1830	synonym
*Clio quadrispinosa*	Rang, 1831	synonym
*Hyalaea cuspidata*	Bosc, 1801	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: トゲウキビシガイ

Literature

additional source	Janssen, A. W. (2007). Holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from the gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea and gulf of Aden (Late Holocene-Recent). The Veliger. 49 (3): 140-195.
additional source	Janssen, A. W. (2004). Holoplanktonic molluscan assemblages (Gastropoda, Heteropoda, Thecosomata) from the Pliocene of Estepona (Spain, Malaga). Palaeontos. 5: 103-131.
additional source	Janssen, A. W.; Bush, S. L. & Bednaršek, N. (2019). The shelled pteropods of the northeast Pacific Ocean (Mollusca: Heterobranchia, Pteropoda). Zoosymposia. 13: 305-346.
additional source	Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	van der Spoel, S. (1967). Euthecosomata, a group with remarkable developmental stages (Gastropoda, Pteropoda). Gorinchem: Noorduijn en Zoon. 378 pp. [20 November 1967].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Clio cuspidata (Bosc, 1801). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139032