Artemidiconus
Encyclopedia
Artemidiconus is a monospecific genus
of sea snail
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Conorbidae
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Like other species in the superfamily Conoidea these snails are predatory and venomous, able to inject neurotoxins into their prey with their radula
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Conorbidae
Conorbidae
Conorbidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.In 2009, John K. Tucker and Manuel J. Tenorio elevated the subfamily Conorbiinae to the rank of family...
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Like other species in the superfamily Conoidea these snails are predatory and venomous, able to inject neurotoxins into their prey with their radula
Radula
The radula is an anatomical structure that is used by molluscs for feeding, sometimes compared rather inaccurately to a tongue. It is a minutely toothed, chitinous ribbon, which is typically used for scraping or cutting food before the food enters the esophagus...
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Species
The only known species within the genus Artemidiconus is:- Artemidiconus selenae (van Mol, Tursch & Kempf, 1967)
External References
- See image of Artemidiconus selenae (van Mol, Tursch & Kempf, 1967) at Gastropods.com http://www.gastropods.com/3/Shell_9593.shtml