Conorbis

Conorbis
Conorbis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conorbidae
Genus: Conorbis
Swainson, 1840[1]
Species

See text

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 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 

References

  1. ^ Swainson W. J. (1840). Treat. Malacol. 149: 312.
  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. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Sepkoski J. J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 1-560.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ a b Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst. 
  7. ^ Paleopbiology Database
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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
  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
Stub icon This Conidae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.