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Conus excelsus G. B. Sowerby III, 1908 
AphiaID: 426492

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
  Asprella tannaensis Cotton, 1945 (synonym of Conus excelsus Sowerby III, 1908)
Conus pulcherrimus Brazier, 1894 (synonym of Conus excelsus)
Turriconus excelsus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1908)
Sources  basis of record: Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. September 4th 2009 Edition. [details]

basis of record: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [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, terrestrial
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Conus excelsus
Conus excelsus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:426492
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2009-10-27 10:23:08Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2011-09-13 08:48:25Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Conus excelsus G. B. Sowerby III, 1908. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=426492 on 2013-05-22
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