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Clypeostoma elongatum
Shell of Clypeostoma elongatum (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Family:	Chilodontaidae
Genus:	Clypeostoma
Species:	C. elongatum
Binomial name
Clypeostoma elongatum (Vilvens, 2001)
Synonyms
Agathodonta elongata Vilvens, 2001

Clypeostoma elongatum is a species of sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chilodontaidae (formerly in the family Trochidae, the top snails).

Description

The size of the shell varies between 7 mm and 24 mm.

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Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines and Indonesia.

References

1. Vilvens (2001). Novapex 2 (2) : 57–60. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 1 May 2010.
2. Clypeostoma elongatum Vilvens, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 March 2013.

• Vilvens C. (2001). Description of a new species of Agathodonta (Gastropoda: Trochidae: Eucyclinae: Chilodontini) from Indonesia and the Philippine Islands. Novapex 2(2): 57-60
• Herbert D.G. (2012) A revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of southern Africa and the south-western Indian Ocean. African Invertebrates, 53(2): 381–502

External links

• "Clypeostoma elongata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.

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