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Virroconus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Conidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Conoidea

Rank
  
Subgenus

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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

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