Benthofascis | |
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Drawing of a shell of Benthofascis atractoides . | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Conorbidae |
Genus: | Benthofascis Iredale, 1936 [1] |
Type species | |
Bathytoma biconica Hedley, 1903 |
Benthofascis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conorbidae. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Like other species in the superfamily Conoidea these snails are predatory and venomous, able to inject neurotoxins into their prey with their radula.
This genus was previously included in the family Turridae (subfamily Conorbinae) [6] and later in the family Conidae. [7] In 2009 Tucker & Tenorio included it in the family Conorbidae. [8]
The known living species within the genus Benthofascis are:
Conidae, with the current common name of "cone snails", is a taxonomic family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Conoidea.
Conoidea is a superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the suborder Hypsogastropoda. This superfamily is a very large group of marine mollusks, estimated at about 340 recent valid genera and subgenera, and considered by one authority to contain 4,000 named living species.
Conorbis is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conorbidae.
Graciliclava is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Horaiclavidae.
Hemilienardia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae, the turrids.
Conorbidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. Despite the name of the family, which might seem to suggest otherwise, this group of gastropods are not cone snails, but are instead what used to be loosely called "turrids".
Artemidiconus is a monospecific genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conorbidae.
The taxonomy of the cone snails and their allies as proposed by John K. Tucker and Manuel J. Tenorio in 2009 was a biological classification system for a large group of predatory sea snails. This system was an attempt to make taxonomic sense of the large and diverse group which contains the family Conidae, the cone snails. The authors proposed extensive changes to the family Conidae in contrast to the way the group was treated in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005. Bouchet and Rocroi included in the family Conidae several other groups of toxoglossan snails which had previously been placed in the Turridae.
Conilithidae is a proposed taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, specifically cone snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea, the cone snails and their allies.
Globiconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conasprella, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
Kohniconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conasprella, family Conilithidae, the cone snails and their allies.
Lilliconus is subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conasprella, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
Parviconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conasprella, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. This genus currently is still treated by some experts as an "alternative representation" of this group of species.
Turridae is a taxonomic family name for a number of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
Benthofascis angularis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conorbidae.
Benthofascis biconica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conorbidae.
Benthofascis pseudobiconica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conorbidae.
Benthofascis lozoueti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conorbidae.
Benthofascis otwayensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conorbidae.
Macteola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.