This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
Name from
Corresponding author (Name, Year)
Linnaeus, 1758
Other languages
scientific
Conus
Alternative Name
Conus (Sciteconus)
da Motta, 1991
Coronaxis
Synonym: Swainson, 1840
Cucullus
Synonym: Röding, 1798
Cylindrus
Batsch, 1789
scientific
Gradiconus
da Motta, 1991
Ref.: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, and K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.
scientific
Jaspidiconus
Petuch, 2004
Ref.: E. J. Petuch. 2004. Cenozoic Seas: The view from eastern North America
scientific
Leptoconus (Gradiconus)
da Motta, 1991
Ref.: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, and K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.
scientific
Spuriconus
Petuch, 2004
Ref.: E. J. Petuch. 2004. Cenozoic Seas: The view from eastern North America
A. Y. Kahal, 2019 - Biofacies and diagenetic alterations of the Pleistocene coral reefs, northwest Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia - Geological Journal (), - (journal article, English)
B. Salvat, 2018 - Pleistocene mollusc assemblage in the slightly raised atoll lagoonof Niau (Tuamotu, French Polynesia) - Paläontologische Gesellschaft (), - (journal article, English)
J. R. Hendricks, 2015 - Glowing Seashells: Diversity of Fossilized Coloration Patterns on Coral Reef-Associated Cone Snail (Gastropoda: Conidae) Shells from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic - Plosone (), - (journal article, English)
N. Puillandre, 2015 - One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails - Journal of Molluscan Studies (81), 1-21 (journal article, English)
T. Bauch, 2011 - Development of a Pliocene mixed-carbonate siliciclastic reef (Limon, Costa Rica) - Sedimentary Geology (239), 37-47 (journal article, English)
B. Landau, 2010 - Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy - Palaeontos (19), 1-221 (journal article, English)
M. Harzhauser, 2009 - Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific - Palaeontologische Zeitschrift (83), 333-372 (journal article, English)
A. J. W. Hendy, 2008 - Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions - (), - (unpublished, English)
B. Landau, 2008 - Southern Caribbean Neogene palaebiogeography revisisted. New data from the Pliocene of Cubagua, Venezuela - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (257), 445-461 (journal article, English)
J. R. Hendricks, 2008 - Late Eocene Conus (Neogastropoda: Conidae) from Florida, USA - The Nautilus (122), 79-93 (journal article, English)
J. R. Hendricks, 2008 - The genus Conus (Mollusca: Neogastropoda) in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Southeastern United States - Bulletins of American Paleontology (375), 1-178 (serial monograph, English)
M. Harzhauser, 2007 - Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific. - Palaeontographica Abteilung A (280), 75-121 (journal article, English)
A. J. W. Hendy, 2007 - Circum-Pacific Late Cenozoic Paleobiogeography: Consideration of latitudinal gradients, provincialism and beta diversity (Unpublished taxonomic opinions) - (), - (unpublished, English)
N. Vandenberghe, 2005 - Stratigraphic interpretation of the Neogene marine-continental record in the Maaseik well (49W0220) in the Roer Valley Graben, NE Belgium - Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Belgium (52), 1-39 (serial monograph, English)
A. G. Beu, 2005 - Neogene fossil tonnoidean gastropods of Indonesia - Scripta Geologica (130), 1-186 (journal article, English)
M. Harzhauser, 2004 - Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran) - Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg (248), 93-181 (journal article, English)
E. J. Petuch, 2004 - - Cenozoic Seas: The view from eastern North America (), - (book/book chapter, English)
J. L. Vera-Peláez, 2004 - Molluscos del Tirreniense (Pleistoceno Superior) de la Playa la Araña-Cala de Moral (Málaga) - Revista Española de Paleontología (19), 251-259 (journal article, Spanish)
O. Mandic, 2003 - Computer-based mollusc stratigraphy - a case study from the Eggenburgian (Lower Miocene) type region (NE Austria) - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (197), 263-291 (journal article, English)
A. E. Oleinik, 2003 - Biotic response to the Eocene-Oligocene Transition: Gastropod assemblages in the High-Latitude North Pacific - From Greenhouse to Icehouse. The Marine Eocene-Oligocene transition. (), 36-56 (book/book chapter, English)
J. J. Sepkoski, Jr., 2002 - A compendium of fossil marine animal genera - Bulletins of American Paleontology (363), 1-560 (serial monograph, English)
L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, 2002 - Cenozoic Molluscan types from Java (Indonesia) in the Martin Collection (Division of Cenozoic Mollusca), National Museum of Natural History, Leiden - NNM Technical Bulletin (5), 1-130 (serial monograph, English)
M. Harzhauser, 2002 - Circum-Mediterranean Oligo–Miocene biogeographic evolution – the gastropods’ point of view - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (183), 103-133 (journal article, English)
A. S. El-Sorogy, 2002 - Paleontology and depositional environments of the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen (225), 337-371 (journal article, English)
M. A. Kosnik, 2002 - personal opinion. - (), - (unpublished, )
P. Callapez, 2000 - Late Quaternary warm marine mollusks from Santa Maria (Azores) paleoecologic and paleobiogeographic considerations - Ciencias da Terra (14), 313-322 (journal article, English)
E. J. Petuch, 1997 - A new gastropod fauna from an Oligocene back-reef lagoonal environment in west central Florida. - The Nautilus (110), 122-138 (journal article, English)
D. Campbell, 1995 - New molluscan faunas from the Eocene of South Carolina - Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology (27), 119-152 (journal article, English)
M. C. Perrilliat, 1992 - Bivalvos y gasterópodos de la formacion Ferrotepec (Mioceno Medio) de Michoacan - Paleontologia Mexicana (60), 1-48 (serial monograph, Spanish)
L. W. Ward, 1992 - Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America - Virginia Museum of Natural History (2), - (serial monograph, English)
R. L. Squires, 1992 - Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico - Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) (434), 1-55 (, )
E. J. Petuch, 1988 - New gastropods from the Maryland Miocene - Bulletin of Paleomalacology (1), 69-80 (serial monograph, English)
E. J. Petuch, 1988 - - Neogene History of Tropical American Mollusks (), 1-217 (book/book chapter, English)
E. J. Petuch, 1987 - - New Caribbean molluscan faunas (), 1-154 (book/book chapter, English)
M.C. Perrilliat, 1987 - Gasteropodos y un cefalopodo de la formacion Ferrotepec (Mioceno Medio) de Michoacan - Paleontologia Mexicana (52), 1-58 (serial monograph, Spanish)
R. L. Squires, 1987 - Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California - Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (388), 1-93 (journal article, English)
C. Beets, 1984 - Mollusca from Preangerian deposits of Mandul Island, northeastern Kalimantan Timur (East Borneo) - Scripta Geologica (74), 49-80 (journal article, )
R. L. Squires, 1984 - Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California - Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (350), 1-76 (serial monograph, English)
C. S. Hickman, 1980 - Paleogene Marine Gastropods of the Keasey Formation in Oregon - Bulletins of American Paleontology (78), 1-112 (, )
S. E. Hoerle, 1976 - A new species of Conus from the Chipola Formation - Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology (12), 31-32 (journal article, English)
S. E. Hoerle, 1976 - The genus Conus (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Alum Bluff Group of northwestern Florida - Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology (12), 1-31 (journal article, English)
H. L. Abbass, 1972 - Paleontological studies of some Saudi Arabian lower Tertiary fossils - Egyptian Journal of Geology (16), 35-68 (journal article, )
A. M. Keen, 1971 - - Sea Shells of Tropical West America (), 1-1064 (book/book chapter, English)
P. Jung, 1971 - Fossil mollusks from Carriacou, West Indies - Bulletins of American Paleontology (61), 1-262 (serial monograph, English)
T. A. Darragh, 1970 - Catalogue of Australian Tertiary Mollusca (except chitons) - Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria (31), 125-212 (compendium, English)
W.O. Addicott, 1970 - Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California - United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (642), 1-172 (journal article, English)
W. P. Woodring, 1970 - Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). - United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (306), 299-452 (serial monograph, )
H. L. Abbass, 1967 - A monograph on the Egyptian Paleocene and Eocene gastropods - United Arab Republic, Geological Survey-Geological Museum, Palaeontological Series, Monograph (), 1-154 (serial monograph, English)
A. A. Olsson, 1964 - - Neogene Mollusks From Northwestern Ecuador (), - (book/book chapter, English)
A. A. Olsson, 1964 - Some Neogene Mollusca from Florida and the Carolinas - Bulletins of American Paleontology (47), 509-575 (serial monograph, English)
A. K. Dey, 1961 - The Miocene Mollusca from Quilon, Kerala (India) - Palaeontologica Indica (36), - (serial monograph, English)
M.C. Perrilliat, 1960 - Moluscos del Mioceno de la Cuenca Salina del Istmo de Tehuantepec, Mexico - Paleontologia Mexicana (8), 1-31 (serial monograph, Spanish)
J. R DuBar, 1958 - Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Late Neogene strata of the Caloosahatchee River area of southern Florida - Florida Geological Survey Bulletin (40), 1-267 (serial monograph, English)
A. Azzaroli, 1958 - L'Oligocene e il Miocene della Somalia. Stratigrafia, Tettonica, Paleontologia (Macroforaminferi, Coralli, Molluschi) - Palaeontolographia Italica (52), 1-142 (serial monograph, Italian)
A. A. Olsson, 1953 - Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida - Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Monograph (8), 1-457 (serial monograph, English)
F. E. Eames, 1952 - A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B (236), 1-168 (journal article, English)
F. E. Eames, 1950 - On the ages of certain Upper Tertiary beds of Peninsula India and Ceylon - Geological Magazine (87), 233-252 (journal article, English)
H. G. Richards, 1947 - Invertebrate fossils from deep wells along the Atlantic Coastal Plain - Journal of Paleontology (21), 23-37 (journal article, English)
J. R. Gardner, 1947 - The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida - United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (), 1-709 (serial monograph, English)
J. W. Durham, 1944 - Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington - University of California Publications in Geological Sciences (27), 101 -212 (journal article, English)
H. G. Richards, 1943 - Additions to the Fauna of the Trent Marl of North Carolina - Journal of Paleontology (17), 518-526 (journal article, English)
H. E. Vokes, 1939 - Molluscan faunas of the Domengine and Arroyo Hondo Formations of the California Eocene - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (38), 1-246 (serial monograph, English)
P. N. Mukerjee, 1939 - Fossil fauna from the Tertiary of Garo Hills, Assam - Palaeontologia Indica (28), 1-101 (serial monograph, English)
H. E. Vokes, 1938 - Upper Miocene Mollusca from Springvale, Trinidad, British West Indies - American Museum Novitates (988), 1-28 (journal article, English)
F. E. Turner, 1938 - Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon - Geological Society of America Special Paper (), 1-130 (serial monograph, English)
C. J. Maury, 1934 - Fossil invertebrates from Northeastern Brazil - Bulletins of the American Museum of Natural History (67), 123-179 (journal article, English)
A. A. Olsson, 1930 - Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca - Bulletins of American Paleontology (17), 1-164 (serial monograph, English)
F. M. Anderson, 1929 - Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia - Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences (18), 73-213 (serial monograph, English)
N.E. Weisbord, 1929 - Miocene Mollusca of Northern Colombia - Bulletin of American Paleontology (14), 1-310 (serial monograph, English)
W. P. Woodring, 1928 - Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results - Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies (), - (book/book chapter, English)
L. W. Wiedey, 1928 - Notes on the Vaqueros and Temblor formations of the California Miocene with descriptions of new species - Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History (5), 95-182 (serial monograph, English)
R. B. Stewart, 1927 - Gabb's California fossil type gastropods - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (78), 287-447 (journal article, English)
M. A. Hanna, 1927 - An Eocene invertebrate fauna from the La Jolla Quadrangle, California - University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences (16), 247-398 (journal article, English)
L.B. Kellum, 1926 - Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina - United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (), 1-56 (serial monograph, )
G. D. Hanna, 1926 - Paleontology of Coyote Mountain, Imperial County, California - Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (14), 427-503 (journal article, English)
W. C. Mansfield, 1925 - Miocene gastropods and scaphopods from Trinidad, British West Indies - Proceedings of the United States National Museum (66), 9116-9125 (journal article, English)
E. Vredenburg, 1925 - Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata - Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India (50), 1-350 (serial monograph, English)
E. M. Spieker, 1922 - The Paleontology of the Zorritos Formation of the North Peruvian Oil Fields - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Geology (3), 1-196 (serial monograph, English)
A. A. Olsson, 1922 - The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica - Bulletins of American Paleontology (9), 1-309 (serial monograph, English)
C. E. Weaver, 1922 - Fauna from the Eocene of Washington - University of Washington Publications in Geology (1), 1-56 (journal article, English)
E. Vredenburg, 1921 - Results of a revision of some portions of Dr Noetling's second monograph on the Tertiary fauna of Burma - Records of the Geological Survey of India (51), 224-302 (journal article, English)
E. Vredenburg, 1921 - Comparative diagnoses of Conidae and Cancellariidae from the Tertiary formations of Burma - Records of the Geological Survey of India (53), 130-141 (journal article, English)
K. E. Winkle, 1918 - Paleontology of the Oligocene of the Chehalis Valley, Washington - University of Washington Publications in Geology (1), 69-97 (journal article, English)
C. J. Maury, 1917 - Santo Domingo type sections and fossils - Bulletins of American Paleontology (5), 1-43 (serial monograph, English)
W. H. Dall, 1916 - A contribution to the invertebrate fauna of the Oligocene beds of Flint, River - Proceedings of the United States National Museum (51), 487-524 (journal article, English)
R. E. Dickerson, 1915 - Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington - Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (5), 33-98 (journal article, English)
A. P. Brown, 1911 - Fauna of the Gatun Formation, Isthmus of Panama - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciencesof Philadelphia (63), 336-373 (journal article, English)
E. Bose, 1906 - Sobre algunas faunas terciarias - Boletin del Instituto Geologico de Mexico (22), - (serial monograph, English)
F. M. Anderson, 1905 - A Stratigraphic Study in the Mount Diablo Range of California - Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Third Series Geology (2), 1-148 (journal article, English)
G. C. Martin, 1904 - Gastropoda - Maryland Geological Survey (Miocene), 131-269 (journal article, English)
K. Martin, 1879 - Die Tertiärschichten auf Java. Nach den Entdeckungen von Fr. Junghuhn - Geologische-Reichsmuseum (), 1-164 (serial monograph, German)
W. M. Gabb, 1864 - Description of the Cretaceous fossils - Geological Survey of California Palaeontology (1), 57-217 (journal article, English)
T. A. Conrad, 1854 - Fossil Testacea of the Tertiary green-sand and marl-bed of Jackson, Miss. Determined and named by T. A. Conrad - Report on the agriculture and geology of Mississippi (), 289- (book chapter, English)
J. B. Lamarck, 1802 - Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris - Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (1), 383-391 (journal article, French)
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - - Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima (1), 1-824 (book, other)
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