''Pseudonoduloconus'' is a

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sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

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gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

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s in the genus ''Conus'',

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Conidae Conidae, with the current common name of "cone snails", is a taxonomic family (previously subfamily) of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Conoidea. The 2014 classification of the superfamily Conoidea, groups onl ...

, the

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and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2011). ''Pseudonoduloconus'' Tucker & Tenorio, 2009. Accessed through:

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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578599 on 2012-01-21 In the latest classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), ''Pseudonoduloconus'' has become a subgenus of ''Conus'' as ''Conus (Pseudonoduloconus)''Tucker & Tenorio, 2009 (type species: ''Conus carnalis'' G. B. Sowerby III, 1879) represented as ''

Conus ''Conus'' is a genus of predatory sea snails, or cone snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Conus Linnaeus, 1758. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at ...

'' Linnaeus, 1758 Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). ''One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails''. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1-23
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Species

* ''Pseudonoduloconus carnalis'' (G. B. Sowerby III, 1879) represented as '' Conus carnalis'' G. B. Sowerby III, 1879 (alternate representation)

References

External links

To World Register of Marine Species
Conidae Gastropod subgenera {{Conidae-stub