Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Conoidea > Family Conidae

Conus Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Conus desidiosus A. Adams, 1853
Conus fumigatus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792
Conus guanche Lauer, 1993
Conus pulcher [Lightfoot], 1786
Conus vayssierei Pallary, 1906
Conus ventricosus Gmelin, 1791

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.
additional source	Röckel D., Korn W. & Kohn A.J. (1995). Manuel of the Living Conidae. Verlag Christa Hemmen, 517pp.
additional source	Coomans H.E., Moolenbeek R.G. & Wils E. (1979-1985). Alphabetical revision of the (sub)species in recent Conidae. (1.)abbas to adansonii, Basteria 43:9-26,1979. (2.)adansoni to albuquerquei, Basteria 43:81-105,1979. (3.)albus to antillarum, Basteria 44:17-49,1980. (4.)aphrodite to azona, Basteria 45:3-55,1981. (5.)baccatus to byssinus, Basteria 46:3-67,1982. (6.)cabritti to cinereus, Basteria 47:67-143,1983. (7.) cingulatus to cylindraceus, Basteria 48:223-311,1985.
additional source	Kohn A.J. & Riggs A.C. (1979). Catalogue of recent and fossil Conus, 1937-1976. Journal of Molluscan Studies (1979), 45, 131-147.
additional source	Kohn, A.J. (1992). A Chronological Taxonomy of Conus, 1758-1840. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London. 315pp.

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Citation

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Conus Linnaeus, 1758. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137813