Conus

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Cone snails
Fossil range: Eocene–Recent
Geography cone, Conus geographus
Geography cone, Conus geographus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conus
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Conus marmoreus
Linnaeus, 1758

Conus is a genus of medium-sized to large, sophisticated predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, with the common names of cone snails, cone shells or cones.

The genus is known from the Eocene to the recent periods.1

This genus currently contains more than 500 extant species.

Species

The following list of species is incomplete.

References

  1. ^ (in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R.: Základy zoopaleontologie. - Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., ISBN 80-7067-599-3.

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