Clinopegma Grant and Gale 1931 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Alternative spelling: Ancistrolepis (Clinopegma)

Parent taxon: Parancistrolepidinae according to Y. I. Kantor et al. 2022

See also Oyama and Mizuno 1958, Sepkoski 2002 and Titova 1994

Sister taxa: Ancistrolepis, Bathyancistrolepis, Japelion, Neancistrolepis, Parancistrolepis, Pseudoliomesus, Thalassoplanes

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Clinopegma in the database

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