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Conus mercator Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 224287

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Conoidea (Superfamily) > Conidae (Family) > Conus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Conus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Conus dealbatus A. Adams, 1855 (synonym of Conus mercator)
Conus lamarckii Kiener, 1845 (synonym of Conus mercator)
Conus orri da Motta, 1982 (synonym of Conus mercator)
Conus reticulatus Born, 1778 (synonym of Conus mercator)
Lautoconus mercator (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. September 4th 2009 Edition. [details]

additional source: Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 - 1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp. [details]

from synonym: Rolán E. & Röckel D. 2000. The endemic Conus of Angola. Argonauta 13(2): 5-44, 150 figs.
page(s): 16, fig. 81 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp. [details] [view taxon]

Distribution Senegal [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Conus mercator
Conus mercator
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224287
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2006-03-14 13:01:33Z  created  Mint Jiddou, Azza
2009-10-27 10:23:08Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2011-07-26 20:31:16Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Conus mercator Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224287 on 2013-05-22
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