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Conus melvilli G. B. Sowerby III, 1879 
AphiaID: 428205

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
Typetaxon of  Quasiconus Tucker & Tenorio, 2009
Parent Conus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa		  Conus boschi Clover, 1972 (synonym of Conus melvilli Sowerby III, 1879)
 Conus pusio G. B. Sowerby II, 1834 (synonym of Conus melvili)
 Quasiconus melvilli (G. B. Sowerby III, 1879)
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
Distribution Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Hispaniola (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Lesser Antilles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Puerto Rico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Conus melvilli
Conus melvilli
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:428205
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-10-27 10:23:08Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2011-10-01 08:49:20Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Conus melvilli G. B. Sowerby III, 1879. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=428205 on 2013-05-21
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