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Conus africanus Kiener, 1845 
AphiaID: 404999

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 neoafricanus da Motta, 1991 (synonym of Conus africanus)
Varioconus africanus (Kiener, 1845)
Sources  basis of record: Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. September 4th 2009 Edition. [details]

basis of record: Rolán E. & Röckel D. 2000. The endemic Conus of Angola. Argonauta 13(2): 5-44, 150 figs. [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: Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To IUCN Red List
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:404999
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2009-06-23 07:07:12Z  created  db_admin
2009-11-02 09:30:18Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2011-09-13 08:48:25Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Conus africanus Kiener, 1845. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=404999 on 2013-05-25
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