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Conorbiinae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Rank
  
Subfamily

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Conoidea

Conorbiinae was a subfamily of small to quite large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae.

This subfamily has also been written by several authors as "Conorbinae". ( and was a long time considered a subfamily of the Turridae.

Bouchet, Kantor et al. elevated in 2011 the subfamily Conorbiinae to the rank of family Conorbidae. This was based on anatomical characters (radular tooth and shell characters) and a dataset of molecular sequences of three gene fragments

Genera

Genera in the subfamily Conorbiinae include :

  • Benthofascis Iredale, 1936
  • Conorbis Swainson, 1840
  • References

    Conorbiinae Wikipedia