Coninae

Coninae
Coninae
A live individual of the geography cone, Gastridium geographus, anterior end towards the left
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Subfamily: Coninae
Fleming, 1822[1]
Genera

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Coninae, common names the cone snails, cone shells or cones is a subfamily of small to quite large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae.

These are sophisticated predatory animals.[2] They hunt and immobilize prey using a modified radular tooth along with a poison gland containing neurotoxins; the tooth is launched out of the snail's mouth in a harpoon-like action.

Genera

Genera within the family Conidae include:

  • Africonus
  • Asprella
  • Austroconus
  • Calamiconus
  • Calibanus
  • Conasprelloides
  • Conus Linnaeus, 1758
  • Cornutoconus Suzuki, 1972
  • Cylinder
  • Darioconus
  • Dendroconus
  • Ductoconus
  • Dyraspis
  • Endemoconus
  • Eremiconus
  • Eugeniconus
  • Floraconus
  • Gastridium
  • Genuanoconus
  • Gladioconus
  • Harmoniconus
  • Hermes
  • Jaspidiconus Petuch, 2004
  • Kalloconus
  • Ketyconus
  • Kioconus
  • Kurodaconus Shikama & Habe, 1968
  • Lamniconus
  • Lautoconus
  • Leporiconus
  • Leptoconus
  • Lindaconus
  • Lithoconus
  • Lividoconus
  • Miliariconus
  • Monteiroconus
  • Nataliconus
  • Parviconus Cotton & Godfrey, 1932
  • Phasmoconus
  • Pionoconus
  • Plicaustraconus
  • Protostrioconus
  • Pseudoconorbis Tucker & Tenorio, 2009
  • Puncticulis
  • Purpuriconus
  • Pyruconus
  • Rhizoconus
  • Rolaniconus
  • Sciteconus
  • Seminoleconus
  • Stellaconus
  • Strategoconus
  • Trovaoconus
  • Turriconus
  • Varioconus
  • Vituliconus
  • Virgiconus
  • Virroconus

References

  1. ^ Fleming J. (June 1822). The philosophy of zoology, a general view of the structure, functions and classification of animals 2. Constable & Co., Edinburgh, 618 pp., Conidae is on the page 490.
  2. ^ Piper, Ross (2007), Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and Unusual Animals, Greenwood Press.

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