Hemiconus scabriculus

Hemiconus scabriculus is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1]

Hemiconus scabriculus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Hemiconus
Species:
H. scabriculus
Binomial name
Hemiconus scabriculus
(Solander, 1766)
Synonyms[1]
  • Conus corculum J. de C. Sowerby, 1841
  • Conus lineatus Solander, 1766
  • Conus scabriculus Solander, 1766

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Eocene strata in United Kingdom.[1]

References

  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Hemiconus scabriculus (Solander, 1766) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1045241 on 2018-12-28
  • Solander, D. C. "Descriptiones specierum." Brander G., Fossilia Hantoniensia collecta, et in Musaeo Brittannico deposita a Gustavo Brander (1766): 9-43.
  • Tracey S., Craig B., Belliard L. & Gain O. (2017). One, four or forty species? - early Conidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) that led to a radiation and biodiversity peak in the late Lutetian Eocene of the Cotentin, NW France. Carnets de Voyages Paléontologiques dans le Bassin Anglo-Parisien. 3: 1-38
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