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Taxonomy
Family:
CONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Conidae (Family)
> Conus (Genus)
> flavidus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Conus (Virgiconus) flavidus Lamarck, 1810 accepted, alternate representation
=Conus erythraeozonatus Barros e Cunha, 1933
=Virgiconus flavidus (Lamarck, 1810)
Images: Conus flavidus Lamarck, 1810
Found scuba-diving in the Bay of Plenty
Taxonomy
Family:
CONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Conidae (Family)
> Conus (Genus)
> flavidus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Conus (Virgiconus) flavidus Lamarck, 1810 accepted, alternate representation
=Conus erythraeozonatus Barros e Cunha, 1933
=Virgiconus flavidus (Lamarck, 1810)
Details: Conus flavidus Lamarck, 1810
Size/Grows to:
Height 75mm
Distribution:
Indo-Pacific, Kermadec Islands, Bay of Plenty
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Puillandre, N., Duda, T.F., Meyer, C., Olivera, B.M., Bouchet, P. 2015 One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails, Journal of Molluscan Studies, 81 (p.13)
  • Tucker, J.K., Tenorio, M.J. 2009 Systematic classification of Recent and Fossil Conoidean Gastropods: with keys to the genera of cone shells, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany (p.130)
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.227)
  • Adams, R. Oct/1995 Conilithes wollastoni, Maxwell and Cone Shells in NZ, Poirieria, 17(4) (p.8)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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