Conomurex
Appearance
Conomurex | |
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Conomurex decorus (Réunion island) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Stromboidea |
Family: | Strombidae |
Genus: | Conomurex Schumacher, 1817[1] |
Type species | |
Conomurex luhuanus | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Conomurex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Conomurex include:
- Conomurex coniformis (Sowerby, 1842)
- Conomurex decorus (Röding, 1798)
- Conomurex fasciatus (Born, 1778)
- Conomurex luhuanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Conomurex persicus (Swainson, 1821)
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Five views of a shell of Conomurex decorus
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Conomurex luhuanus ("strawberry conch")
References
- ^ Schumacher (1817). Ess. Vers test., 66: 219.
- ^ a b Conomurex Bayle in P. Fischer, 1884. WoRMS (2009). Conomurex. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=531648 on 22 March 2011 .
- Bandel K. (2007) About the larval shell of some Stromboidea, connected to a review of the classification and phylogeny of the Strombimorpha (Caenogastropoda). Freiberger Forschungshefte, ser. C 524: 97-206