Virroconus

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Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Conidae		Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Conoidea Rank Subgenus

Similar Conus ebraeus, Virgiconus, Lithoconus, Conus chaldaeus, Turriconus

Virroconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

In the latest classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Virroconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Virroconus) Iredale, 1930 (type species: Conus ebraeus Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Conus Linnaeus, 1758

Species

Virroconus chaldaeus (Röding, 1798): synonym of Conus chaldaeus (Röding, 1798)

Virroconus ebraeus (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Conus ebraeus Linnaeus, 1758

Virroconus judaeus (Bergh, 1895): synonym of Conus judaeus Bergh, 1895

References

Virroconus Wikipedia

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