Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Pteropoda > Suborder Gymnosomata > Superfamily Clionoidea

Clionidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Clioninae*	Rafinesque, 1815	synonym; alternate representation
*Thliptodontidae*	Kwietniewski, 1902	synonym
*Thliptodontinae*	Kwietniewski, 1902	synonym; alternate representation

Children

Cephalobrachia Bonnevie, 1913
Clione Pallas, 1774
Fowlerina Pelseneer, 1906
Massya Pruvot-Fol, 1924
Paraclione Tesch, 1903
Thalassopterus Kwietniewski, 1910
Thliptodon Boas, 1886

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: vlerkslakken sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

Japanese: ハダカカメガイ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: änglavingsnäckor

Literature

basis of record	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].
basis of record	ICZN. (2006). Opinion 2133 (Case 3211). Clionidae d'Orbigny, 1851 (Porifera, Hadromerida): emended to Clionaidae to remove homonymy with Clionidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Mollusca, Pteropoda). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 63 (1): 51-53.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Clionidae Rafinesque, 1815. 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:166