{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic Taxobox | image = Sea angel.jpg | image_caption = ''Clione limacina'' | taxon = Clione | authority = Pallas, 1774<ref>Pallas P. S. (1774). ''Spic. Zool.'' '''10''': 28.</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = | synonyms_ref= <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms= ''Trichocyclus'' <small>Eschscholtz, 1825</small> }}

'''''Clione''''' is a genus of small, floating sea slugs, pelagic marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clionidae, the sea angels.<ref name="WoRMS">Gofas, S. (2012). Clione. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137793 on 2012-07-23</ref>

''Clione'' is the type genus of the family Clionidae.<ref>{{Bouchet 2005}}</ref>

== Species == Species within the genus ''Clione'' include: *''Clione antarctica'' <small>(Smith, 1902)</small> *''Clione elegantissima'' <small>(Dall, 1871)</small> *''Clione japonica'' <small>Yamazaki, Shimada & Zhang, 2025</small><ref>Yamazaki, T., Shimada, H. & Zhang, J. (2025). “A New cryptic Species of ''Clione'' (Gastropoda) in deep waters of the Japan Sea (East Sea) and shallow waters of the southern Okhotsk Sea”. ''Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity''. In Press, Corrected Proof. {{doi|10.1016/j.japb.2025.10.002}}.</ref> *''Clione limacina'' <small>(Phipps, 1774)</small> *''Clione okhotensis'' <small>Yamazaki & Kuwahara, 2017</small><ref name="Yamazaki2017">{{cite journal | last1 = Yamazaki | first1 = Tomoyasu | last2 = Kuwahara | first2 = Takashi | title = A new species of ''Clione'' distinguished from sympatric ''C. limacina'' (Gastropoda: Gymnosomata) in the southern Okhotsk Sea, Japan, with remarks on the taxonomy of the genus | journal = Journal of Molluscan Studies | volume = 83 | issue = 1 | year = 2017 | pages = 19–26 | issn=0260-1230 | doi=10.1093/mollus/eyw032| doi-access = free }}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}} * Vaught, K.C. (1989). ''A classification of the living Mollusca''. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). {{ISBN|0-915826-22-4}}. XII, 195 pp. * Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). ''European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification''. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp.&nbsp;180–213

== Further reading == * Gilmer R. W. & Lalli C. M. (1990). "Bipolar variation in ''Clione'', a gymnosomatous pteropod". ''Am. Malacol. Union Bull.'' '''8(1)''': 67-75.

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