Clio pyramidata

Clio pyramidata is a species of sea butterfly, a floating and swimming sea snail, a pelagic marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cliidae.^[3]

Clio pyramidata
Clio pyramidata (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Euopisthobranchia
Order:	Pteropoda
Family:	Cliidae
Genus:	Clio
Species:	C. pyramidata
Binomial name
Clio pyramidata Linnaeus, 1767[1]
Synonyms[2]
Clio caudata Linnaeus, 1767 Hyalaea lanceolata Lesueur, 1813 Cleodora brownii de Blainville, 1825 Cleodora exacuta Gould, 1852 Clio occidentalis Dall, 1871 Clio pyramidata var. convexa Boas, 1886

Formae

• Forma Clio pyramidata f. lanceolata Lesueur, 1813^[4]
• Forma Clio pyramidata f. pyramidata Linnaeus, 1767
• Forma Clio pyramidata f. tyrrhenica A.W. Janssen, 2012

Distribution

This species has a wide distribution: subtropical.,^[5] European waters, the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean (Azores, Cape Verde), the Northwest Atlantic (Gulf of Maine), the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and off New Zealand.

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 21 mm.^[6]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.^[6] Maximum recorded depth is 3718 m.^[6]