Clio pyramidata is a species of sea butterfly, a floating and swimming sea snail, a pelagic marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cliidae.
Formae Forma Clio pyramidata f. lanceolata Lesueur, 1813Gofas, S. (2011). Clio pyramidata Linnaeus, 1767. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139033 on 2011-02-09 Forma Clio pyramidata f. pyramidata Linnaeus, 1767 Forma Clio pyramidata f. tyrrhenica A.W. Janssen, 2012
Distribution This species has a wide distribution: subtropical.,Tsurumi M., Mackas D. L., Whitney F. A., DiBacco C., Galbraith M. D. & Wong C. S. (2005). "Pteropods, eddies, carbon flux, and climate variability in the Alaska Gyre". Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 52(7-8): 1037-1053. , PDF . 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.Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. .
Habitat Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 3718 m.
References
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 Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. Willan, R. (2009). Opisthobranchia (Mollusca). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 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. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. Janssen A.W. (2012) Late Quaternary to Recent holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from bottom samples of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: systematics, morphology. Bollettino Malacologico 48 (suppl. 9): 1-105
External links Clio pyramidata at Marine Species Identification Portal