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Artemidiconus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Conorbidae
Genus: Artemidiconus
da Motta, 1991
Type species
Conus selenae van Mol, Tursch & Kempf, 1967
Species

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Artemidiconus is a monospecific genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conorbidae.[2][1]

Like other species in the superfamily Conoidea these snails are predatory and venomous, able to inject neurotoxins into their prey with their radula.

This genus was added to the family Conorbidae by Tucker & Tenorio (2009) [3]

Species

The only known species within the genus Artemidiconus is:

References

  1. ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2011). Artemidiconus da Motta, 1991. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=577954 on 2011-08-12
  2. ^ Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
  3. ^ Tucker, J.K. & Tenorio, M.J. (2009) Systematic Classification of Recent and Fossil Conoidean Gastropods, with Keys to the Genera of Cone Shells. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany, 295 pp
  • da Motta, A.J. (1991) A Systematic Classification of the Gastropod Family Conidae at the Generic Level. La Conchiglia, Rome. 48 pp,.

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