| 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 |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Buccinidae |
| Genus: | Clea A. Adams, 1855[1] |
Clea is a genus of freshwater snails with operculums, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks, a large family, almost all of the rest of which are marine.[2]
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Species within the genus Clea include:
This genus occurs in Asia.
Like all snails in the clade Neogastropoda, snails in this genus are carnivorous.