Cylinder is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks n the genus Conus, in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
In the new classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Cylinder has become a subgenus of Conus: Conus (Cylinder) Petuch & Sargent, 2012 represented as Conus Thiele, 1929. The same study found Cylinder to be polyphyletic, but morphologically consistent, possibly corresponding to grades. Conus ammiralis, Conus canonicus and Conus dalli cluster with the type species Conus textile, the others form a separate clade.
The Tucker & Tenorio 2009 taxonomy distinguishes Cylinder from Conus in the following ways:
Genus Conus Linnaeus, 1758
Subgenus Cylinder Montfort, 1810
This list of species is based on the information in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) list. Species within the genus Cylinder include:
Cylinder abbas (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792): synonym of Conus abbas Hwass in Bruguière, 1792
Cylinder ammiralis Linnaeus, 1758: synonym of Conus (Cylinder) ammiralis Linnaeus, 1758, represented as Conus ammiralis Linnaeus, 1758
Cylinder aureus (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792): synonym of Conus aureus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792
Cylinder barbieri (G. Raybaudi Massilia, 1995): synonym of Conus barbieri G. Raybaudi Massilia, 1995
Cylinder bengalensis (Okutani, 1968): synonym of Conus bengalensis (Okutani, 1968)
Cylinder biancae (Bozzetti, 2010): synonym of Conus biancae Bozzetti, 2010
Cylinder canonicus (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792): synonym of Conus canonicus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792
Cylinder dalli (Stearns, 1873): synonym of Conus dalli Stearns, 1873
Cylinder dondani (Kosuge, 1981): synonym of Conus dondani Kosuge, 1981
Cylinder erythrostoma (Meuschen, 1787): synonym of Miniaceoliva miniacea (Röding, 1798)
Cylinder gloriamaris (Chemnitz, 1777): synonym of Conus gloriamaris Chemnitz, 1777
Cylinder glorioceanus (Poppe & Tagaro, 2009): synonym of Conus glorioceanus Poppe & Tagaro, 2009
Cylinder legatus (Lamarck, 1810): synonym of Conus legatus Lamarck, 1810
Cylinder nodulosus (G.B. Sowerby II, 1864): synonym of Conus nodulosus G.B. Sowerby II, 1864
Cylinder pacificus (Moolenbeek & Röckel, 1996): synonym of Conus pacificus Moolenbeek & Röckel, 1996
Cylinder paulucciae (G. B. Sowerby III, 1887): synonym of Cylinder aureus paulucciae (G. B. Sowerby III, 1887) represented as Conus aureus paulucciae G. B. Sowerby III, 1887
Cylinder priscai Bozzetti, 2012: synonym of Conus (Cylinder) priscai Bozzetti, 2012 represented as Conus priscai (Bozzetti, 2012)
Cylinder retifer (Menke, 1829): synonym of Conus retifer Menke, 1829
Cylinder scottjordani (Poppe, Monnier & Tagaro, 2012): synonym of Conus (Cylinder) scottjordani (Poppe, Monnier & Tagaro, 2012) represented as Conus scottjordani (Poppe, Monnier & Tagaro, 2012)
Cylinder tagaroae Limpalaër & Monnier, 2013: synonym of Conus (Cylinder) tagaroae (Limpalaër & Monnier, 2013) represented as Conus tagaroae (Limpalaër & Monnier, 2013)
Cylinder telatus (Reeve, 1848): synonym of Conus telatus Reeve, 1848
Cylinder textile (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Conus textile Linnaeus, 1758
Cylinder victoriae (Reeve, 1843): synonym of Conus victoriae Reeve, 1843
