Conorbiinae
Encyclopedia
Conorbiinae was a subfamily
of small to quite large sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae.
This subfamily has also been written by several authors as "Conorbinae". ( and was a long time considered a subfamily of the Turridae
.
Bouchet
, Kantor et al. elevated in 2011 the subfamily Conorbiinae to the rank of family Conorbidae
. This was based on anatomical characters (radular tooth
and shell characters) and a dataset of molecular sequences of three gene
fragments
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...
of small to quite large sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae.
This subfamily has also been written by several authors as "Conorbinae". ( and was a long time considered a subfamily of the Turridae
Turridae
Turridae, , is a large taxonomic family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, that vary in size from minute to moderately large. With more than 4,000 species, the Turridae is the largest mollusk family and group of marine caenogastropods...
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Bouchet
Philippe Bouchet
Philippe Bouchet is a French scientist, a zoologist whose primary scientific field of study is malacology. He is a senior professor at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, and is head of the Malacology laboratory and the Taxonomy Collections Unit there...
, Kantor et al. elevated in 2011 the subfamily Conorbiinae to the rank of family 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...
. This was based on anatomical characters (radular tooth
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...
and shell characters) and a dataset of molecular sequences of three gene
Gene
A gene is a molecular unit of heredity of a living organism. It is a name given to some stretches of DNA and RNA that code for a type of protein or for an RNA chain that has a function in the organism. Living beings depend on genes, as they specify all proteins and functional RNA chains...
fragments
Genera
Genera in the subfamily Conorbiinae include :- BenthofascisBenthofascisBenthofascis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conorbidae.Like other species in the superfamily Conoidea these snails are predatory and venomous, able to inject neurotoxins into their prey with their radula....
Iredale, 1936 - ConorbisConorbisConorbis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conorbidae.This genus was formerly classified in the family Conidae by Vredenburg in the clade Neogastropoda by Sepkoski and in the subfamily Conorbiinae by Harzhauser .Conorbis is the type genus of the family Conorbidae...
Swainson, 1840