Conorbis

Conorbis is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conorbidae.[2]

Conorbis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Conorbidae
Genus:	†Conorbis Swainson, 1840[1]
Species
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This genus was formerly classified in the family Conidae by Vredenburg (1921)[3] in the clade Neogastropoda by Sepkoski (2002)[4] and in the subfamily Conorbiinae by Harzhauser (2007).[5]

Conorbis is the type genus of the family Conorbidae.[6] The type species of the genus Conorbis is extinct.[6] Species in this genus lack nadules.

Species

Species within the genus Conorbis include:[7]

• † Conorbis aequipartitus (Cossmann, 1889) - "Catalogue Illustré des Coquilles Fossiles de l'Éocène des Environs de Paris. (4ème fascicule). Annales de la Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique, 24: 3 -385 "; Middle-Miocene fossil species from France
• † Conorbis alatoideus (Aldrich, 1885) - "Notes on the Tertiary of Alabama and Mississippi, with descriptions of new species. The Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, 8 (2 ): 145 -153"; Type Locality: Moody's Branch, Mississippi
• † Conorbis alatus (Edwards, 1856) - "Descriptions of Shells from the Older Tertiaries of England. A Monograph of the Eocene Mollusca, or descriptions of shells from the older Tertiaries of England. Part III, No. II. Prosobranchiata (continued), 3 (2 )"
• † Conorbis aliger (Tracey & Todd, 1996) - "Nomenclatural changes for some Bracklesham gastropods. Tertiary Research, 16: 41 -54"
• † Conorbis amphiconus (J. de C. Sowerby, 1850) - "The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex"
• † Conorbis bhagothorensis (Vredenburg, 1925) - fossil species from the Oligocene in Pakistan
• † Conorbis dormitor (Solander, 1766) - originally described as Conus dormitor, it was renamed Conorbis dormitor by Swainson in 1840; Oligo-Miocene fossil species from the Lower Indus Valley in Pakistan.
• † Conorbis protensus (Michelotti, 1861) - originally described as Pleurotoma protensa, it was renamed by Sacco in 1893 and confirmed by Harzhauser in 2007;[5] this fossil species is found in the Oligocene in Italy and Oman.
• † Conorbis sindiensis (Vredenburg, 1925) - fossil species from the Early Miocene in Pakistan.
• † Conorbis veselovi (Amitrov, 2008)[8]

Species brought into synonymy

• Conorbis adamii (Bozzetti, 1994):[9][10] synonym of Genotina adamii (Bozzetti, 1994)
• † Conorbis atractoides (Tate 1890): synonym of † Benthofascis atractoides (Tate 1890)
• Conorbis coromandelicus (E. A. Smith, 1894):[11][12] synonym of Pseudoconorbis coromandelicus] (E.A. Smith, 1894), synonym of Conasprella coromandelica (E. A. Smith, 1894)
• † Conorbis otwayensis Long, 1981:[13] synonym of † Benthofascis. otwayensis Long, 1981 (Oligocene of Australia)

References

1. Swainson W. J. (1840). Treat. Malacol. 149: 312.
2. Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
3. Vredenburg E. (1921). "Comparative diagnoses of Conidae and Cancellariidae from the Tertiary formations of Burma". Records of the Geological Survey of India 53: 130-141.
4. Sepkoski J. J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 1-560.
5. Harzhauser M. (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. PDF.
6. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
7. Paleopbiology Database
8. O. V. Amitrov O. V. (2008). The current state of study of the gastropods of the Mandrikovka Beds (Upper Eocene of Ukraine), with the description of a new species of Conorbis. MAIK Nauka, 42(6): 581-584, ISSN 0031-0301.
9. Bozzetti, L. (1994) Nuova specie dalle Filippine. World Shells, 9, 60–62.
10. WoRMS (2010). Conorbis adamii Bozzetti, 1994. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433396 on 2011-01-10
11. Thiele, J. (1929) Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde. Vol. 1. Gustave Fischer, Jena, 376 pp.
12. WoRMS (2010). Conorbis coromandelicus (Smith E. A., 1894). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433397 on 2011-01-10
13. Long, D.C. (1981) Late Eocene and early Oligocene Turridae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchiata) of the Brown’s Creek and Glen Aire Clays, Victoria, Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 42, 15–55, pls. 4–7

• von Koenen, A. (1867) Ueber Conorbis und Cryptoconus, Zwischenformen der Gattungen. Palaeontographica, 16, 159–174, pl. 15.
• 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, 295 pp