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Conus elegans G. B. Sowerby III, 1895 
AphiaID: 426483

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Conoidea (Superfamily) > Conidae (Family) > Conus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Species
Parent Conus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa		  Conus aculeiformis var. torensis Sturany, 1904 (synonym of Conus elegans)
 Conus elegans ramalhoi Coomans, Moolenbeek & Wils, 1986 (synonym of Conus elegans)
 Fusiconus elegans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1895)
Sources  basis of record: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [details]

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

from synonym: Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. September 4th 2009 Edition. [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]

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Subspecies Conus elegans ramalhoi Coomans, Moolenbeek & Wils, 1986 accepted as Conus elegans G. B. Sowerby III, 1895
Environment marine, terrestrial
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
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Conus elegans
Conus elegans
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:426483
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-10-27 10:23:08Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2011-09-18 08:12:44Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Conus elegans G. B. Sowerby III, 1895. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=426483 on 2013-05-26
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