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* ''[[Conus sanguinolentus]]'' <small>[[Quoy]] & [[Gaimard]], 1834</small>
* ''[[Conus sanguinolentus]]'' <small>[[Quoy]] & [[Gaimard]], 1834</small>
* ''[[Conus sazanka]]'' <small>Shikama, 1970</small>
* ''[[Conus sazanka]]'' <small>Shikama, 1970</small>
* ''[[Conus scabriusculus]]'' <small>Dillwyn, 1817</small>
* ''[[Conus scabriusculus]]'' <small>[[Lewis Weston Dillwyn|Dillwyn]], 1817</small>
* ''[[Conus scalaris]]'' <small>[[Achille Valenciennes|Valenciennes]], 1832</small>
* ''[[Conus scalaris]]'' <small>[[Achille Valenciennes|Valenciennes]], 1832</small>
* ''[[Conus scalptus]]'' <small>[[Lovell Augustus Reeve|Reeve]], 1843</small>
* ''[[Conus scalptus]]'' <small>[[Lovell Augustus Reeve|Reeve]], 1843</small>

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Cone snails
Temporal range: Eocene–Recent
Geography cone, Conus geographus
Scientific classification
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Conus

Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Conus marmoreus
Linnaeus, 1758
Conus species eating a fish

Conus is a genus of medium-sized to large, sophisticated predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs, with the common names of cone snails, cone shells or cones. The genus is known from the Eocene to the recent periods.[1] There are more than 500 extant species.

Species

The following list of species is incomplete.

References

  1. ^ (in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R. Základy zoopaleontologie. Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., ISBN 80-7067-599-3.