Conorbiinae was a subfamily of small to quite large sea snails, marine gastropod

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s in the family Conidae.Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". ''

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'' 47(1-2). . 397 pp. This subfamily has also been written by several authors as "Conorbinae". ( and was a long time considered a subfamily of the

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. Bouchet, Kantor ''et al''. elevated in 2011 the subfamily Conorbiinae to the rank of family

Conorbidae Conorbidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: ...

. This was based on anatomical characters ( radular tooth and shell characters) and a dataset of molecular sequences of three

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fragments Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
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Genera

Genera in the subfamily Conorbiinae include :World Register of Marine Species : Conorbiinae
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Conorbis ''Conorbis'' is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conorbidae. This genus was formerly classified in the family Conidae by Vredenburg (1921) in the clade Neogastropoda by Sepkoski (2002) and in the subfa ...

'' Swainson, 1840

References

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