Rank Subgenus | Subfamily Coninae | |
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Similar Conus furvus, Calamiconus, Conasprelloides | ||
Calibanus is a subgenus of sea snails, cone snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
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In the new classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Calibanus has become a subgenus of Conus: Conus (Calibanus ) da Motta, 1991 represented as Conus Thiele, 1929
Distinguishing characteristics
The Tucker & Tenorio 2009 taxonomy distinguishes Calibanus from Conus in the following ways:
Species list
This list of species is based on the information in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) list. Species within the genus Calibanus include:
The following species names are recognized as "alternate representations" (see full explanation below) in contrast to the traditional system, which uses the genus Conus for all species in the family: