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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConus melvilli G. B. Sowerby III, 1879 
AphiaID: 428205

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGastropoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaenogastropoda (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeogastropoda (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConus (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConus melvilli (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorQuasiconus Tucker & Tenorio, 2009
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConus Linnaeus, 1758
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConus melvilli G. B. Sowerby III, 1879
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConus (Quasiconus) melvilli G. B. Sowerby III, 1879 · accepted, alternate representation
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConus boschi Clover, 1972
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConus pusio G. B. Sowerby I, 1834 (invalid: junior homonym of Conus pusio Hwass in Bruguière, 1792)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorQuasiconus melvilli (G. B. Sowerby III, 1879)
Sources  original description Sowerby, G. B., III. 1879. Descriptions of ten new species of shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1878:795-798, pl. 48. [details]

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Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution 
From other sources
Caribbean Sea
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorCaribbean Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
(no group)
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorHispaniola [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorLesser Antilles [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorPuerto Rico [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
Images Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show unreviewed]
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. (2011). Conus melvilli. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=428205 on 2017-09-24
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