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Conus

(Genus)

Overview

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Conus is a of medium-sized to large, sophisticated predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs, with the common names of cone snails, cone shells or cones. The genus is known from the Eocene to the recent periods.1] There are more than 500 extant species.

Species

The following list of species is incomplete.

Photos

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Taxonomy

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The Genus Conus is further organized into finer groupings including:

References

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

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Last Revised: April 26, 2010
2010/04/26 21:54:41