Conorbis
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Conorbis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conorbidae.[2]
This genus was formerly classified in the family Conidae by Vredenburg (1921)[3] in the clade Neogastropoda by Sepkoski (2002)[4] and in the subfamily Conorbiinae by Harzhauser (2007).[5]
Conorbis is the type genus of the family Conorbidae.[6] The type species of the genus Conorbis is extinct.[6]
Species
Species within the genus Conorbis include:[7]
- † Conorbis aequipartitus (Cossmann, 1889) - "Catalogue Illustré des Coquilles Fossiles de l'Éocène des Environs de Paris. (4ème fascicule). Annales de la Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique, 24: 3 -385 "; Middle-Miocene fossil species from France
- † Conorbis alatoideus (Aldrich, 1885) - "Notes on the Tertiary of Alabama and Mississippi, with descriptions of new species. The Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, 8 (2 ): 145 -153"; Type Locality: Moody's Branch, Mississippi
- † Conorbis alatus (Edwards, 1856) - "Descriptions of Shells from the Older Tertiaries of England. A Monograph of the Eocene Mollusca, or descriptions of shells from the older Tertiaries of England. Part III, No. II. Prosobranchiata (continued), 3 (2 )"
- † Conorbis aliger (Tracey & Todd, 1996) - "Nomenclatural changes for some Bracklesham gastropods. Tertiary Research, 16: 41 -54"
- † Conorbis amphiconus (J. de C. Sowerby, 1850) - "The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex"
- † Conorbis bhagothorensis (Vredenburg, 1925) - fossil species from the Oligocene in Pakistan
- † Conorbis dormitor (Solander, 1766) - originally described as Conus dormitor, it was renamed Conorbis dormitor by Swainson in 1840; Oligo-Miocene fossil species from the Lower Indus Valley in Pakistan.
- † Conorbis protensus (Michelotti, 1861) - originally described as Pleurotoma protensa, it was renamed by Sacco in 1893 and confirmed by Harzhauser in 2007;[5] this fossil species is found in the Oligocene in Italy and Oman.
- † Conorbis sindiensis (Vredenburg, 1925) - fossil species from the Early Miocene in Pakistan.
- † Conorbis veselovi (Amitrov, 2008)[8]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Conorbis adamii (Bozzetti, 1994):[9] synonym of Genotina adamii (Bozzetti, 1994)
- Conorbis coromandelicus (E. A. Smith, 1894):[10] synonym of Pseudoconorbis coromandelicus (E.A. Smith, 1894)
References
- ^ Swainson W. J. (1840). Treat. Malacol. 149: 312.
- ^ Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
- ^ Vredenburg E. (1921). "Comparative diagnoses of Conidae and Cancellariidae from the Tertiary formations of Burma". Records of the Geological Survey of India 53: 130-141.
- ^ Sepkoski J. J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 1-560.
- ^ a b Harzhauser M. (2007). "Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific". Palaeontographica Abteilung A 280: 75-121. PDF.
- ^ a b Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ Paleopbiology Database
- ^ O. V. Amitrov O. V. (2008). The current state of study of the gastropods of the Mandrikovka Beds (Upper Eocene of Ukraine), with the description of a new species of Conorbis. MAIK Nauka, 42(6): 581-584, ISSN 0031-0301.
- ^ WoRMS (2010). Conorbis adamii Bozzetti, 1994. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433396 on 2011-01-10
- ^ WoRMS (2010). Conorbis coromandelicus (Smith E. A., 1894). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433397 on 2011-01-10