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Clea (genus)
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Clea is a genus
of freshwater snail
s with operculum
s, aquatic
gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae
, the true whelk
s, a large family, almost all of the rest of which are marine
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, snails in this genus are carnivorous.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
s with operculum
Operculum (gastropod)
The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...
s, aquatic
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...
gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae
Buccinidae
Buccinidae is a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.True whelks are mostly marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda...
, the true whelk
Whelk
Whelk, also spelled welk or even "wilks", is a common name used to mean one or more kinds of sea snail. The species, genera and families referred to using this common name vary a great deal from one geographic area to another...
s, a large family, almost all of the rest of which are marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
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Species
Species within the genus Clea include:- Clea bangueyensis SmithEdgar Albert SmithEdgar Albert Smith was a British zoologist, a malacologist.His father was the Frederick Smith, a well-known entomologist, and Assistant Keeper of Zoology in the British Museum, Bloomsbury...
, 1895 - Clea bocki Brot
- Clea bocourti (Brot, 1876)
- Clea cambojiensis (Reeve, 1861)
- Clea fusca (H. Adams, 1862)
- Clea helenaClea helenaClea helena is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks, most of which are marine.- Distribution :...
(Meder in PhilippiRodolfo Amando PhilippiRodolfo Amando Philippi was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist....
, 1847) - Clea hidalgoi (CrosseJoseph Charles Hippolyte CrosseJoseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse was a French conchologist.-Works:*Notice sur les bulimes de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, et description de deux espèces nouvelles .*Descriptions de coquilles nouvelles ....
, 1886) - Clea jullieni (DeshayesGérard Paul DeshayesGérard Paul Deshayes was a French geologist and conchologist.He was born in Nancy, his father at that time being professor of experimental physics in the École Centrale of the Meurthe département....
) - Clea nigricans A. AdamsArthur Adams (zoologist)Arthur Adams was an English physician and naturalist.Adams was assistant surgeon on board H.M.S. "Actaeon" in company with HMS Samarang in the British Navy during the survey of the Malay Archipelago, the Japan Sea, Korea and China,from 1843 to 1846. He edited the Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S....
, 1855 - Clea scalarina (Deshayes in Deshayes & Jullien, 1876)
- Clea spinosa Temcharoen, 1971
- Clea wykoffi Brandt, 1974
Feeding habits
Like all snails in the clade NeogastropodaNeogastropoda
Neogastropoda is an unranked taxonomic clade of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. For many years prior to 2005 Neogastropoda was an order.- Description :...
, snails in this genus are carnivorous.