Dyraspis

Dyraspis is no longer accepted as a genus. It has become a synonym of the subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks Conus (Virroconus) Iredale, 1930 represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758 in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1]

Dyraspis
Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Conus dorreensis (Peron, F., 1807)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Conoidea
Family:
Conidae
Genus:
Dyraspis

Iredale, 1949
Synonyms

Conus (Virroconus) Iredale, 1930

Species list

This list of species is based on the information in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) list. Species within the genus Dyraspis include:[1]

  • Dyraspis dorreensis (Péron, 1807) is a synonym of Conus dorreensis Péron, 1807

References
  1. Dyraspis Iredale, 1949. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 07/13/11.

Further reading
  • Kohn A. A. (1992). Chronological Taxonomy of Conus, 1758-1840". Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.
  • Monteiro A. (ed.) (2007). The Cone Collector 1: 1-28.
  • Berschauer D. (2010). Technology and the Fall of the Mono-Generic Family The Cone Collector 15: pp. 51-54
  • Puillandre N., Meyer C.P., Bouchet P., and Olivera B.M. (2011), Genetic divergence and geographical variation in the deep-water Conus orbignyi complex (Mollusca: Conoidea), Zoologica Scripta 40(4) 350-363.
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