Conus planiliratus is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]
Conus planiliratus Temporal range: Neogene
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Several shells of Conus planiliratus, seen as reversed images photographed under UV light | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Conidae |
Genus: | Conus |
Species: | †C. planiliratus
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Binomial name | |
†Conus planiliratus G. B. Sowerby I, 1850
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Synonyms[1] | |
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This species is not to be confounded with Conus planiliratus Sowerby, G.B. III, 1870, a synonym of Graphiconus inscriptus inscriptus maculospira (Pilsbry, H.A. & C.W. Johnson, 1922), itself a synonym of Conus inscriptus Reeve, 1843.
Description
editThe size of the shell varies between 19 mm and 24 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species is only known as a fossil from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic.
References
edit- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus planiliratus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215524 on 2015-11-16