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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Euopisthobranchia |
| Order: | Pteropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cavolinioidea |
| Family: | Cliidae Jeffreys, 1869 |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Tripteridae (declared nomen oblitum by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005)) | |
The family Cliidae is a taxonomic group of small floating sea snails, pelagic marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs.[1]
This family name has for a long time been known as Clioidae, or the subfamily Clioinae Jeffreys, 1869 belonging to the family Cavoliniidae, each time with the type genus Clio Linnaeus, 1767. Unfortunately this is often confused with another molluscan family Clionidae, which has the type genus Clione. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) has therefore changed the name back to its original spelling Cliidae Jeffreys, 1869, type genus Clio Linnaeus, 1767[2]
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2011). Cliidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411904 on 2012-07-24
- ^ International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (30 September 2004). "Comments". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 61 (3). Archived from the original on March 28, 2006.