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

Cliidae Jeffreys, 1869

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Clio Linnaeus, 1767

Literature

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.
additional source	Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.
status source	Janssen, A. W.; Burridge, A. K.; Mekkes, L. & Peijnenburg, K. T. C. A. (2018). History of the Clio pyramidata-complex (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Euthecosomata, Cliidae) in the Atlantic Ocean, restoring its original concept. Basteria. 82 (4-6): 83-102.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cliidae Jeffreys, 1869. 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:411904