Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Conidae | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Conoidea Rank Subgenus | |
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Similar Conus, Calibanus, Lautoconus, Varioconus | ||
Kalloconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the 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), Kalloconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Kalloconus) da Motta, 1991 (type species: Conus pulcher [Lightfoot], 1786) represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758
Distinguishing characteristics
The Tucker & Tenorio 2009 taxonomy distinguishes Kalloconus 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 Kalloconus include:
References
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