Clea (genus)

Clea
A live individual of Clea helena
A live individual of Clea helena
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Clea A. Adams, 1855
Synonyms
Anentome Cossmann, 1901 Canidia H. Adams, 1862 (invalid: junior homonym of Canidia J. Thomson, 1857 [Coleoptera]; Anentome is a replacement name) Quadrasia Crosse, 1886

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

Clea is a genus of freshwater snails with opercula, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks, a large family, almost all of the rest of which are marine.

Species within the genus Clea include:

This genus occurs in Asia and Africa.

Like all snails in the clade Neogastropoda, snails in this genus are carnivorous.

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