Poole, Karen E.
Conus
Sign in to saveAlso known as Conus snail
thumb|200 px|Fossil Conus pelagicus from the Pliocene of Cyprus
Species
cone snails
KINGDOM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyConidae
Dieser Artikel beschreibt die Pflanzengattung Calibanus. Für die gleichnamige monotypische Schneckengattung siehe Calibanus furvus. Calibanus ist eine Pflanzengattung, die zur Familie der Spargelgewächse (Asparagaceae) gehört. Der botanische Name leitet sich von Caliban, einer Gestalt aus William Shakespeares Stück Der Sturm, ab.
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 11,589
- With media
- 679
- Family
- Conidae
- Collections
- UWBM, PRI, LACM, SDNHM
- Recorded in
- United States, Ecuador, Fiji
Research
5,751 papers- Conus regius-Derived Conotoxins: Novel Therapeutic Opportunities from a Marine Organism.Marine drugs · 2022
- Conus Envenomation of Humans: In Fact and Fiction.Toxins · 2018
- Conus venom peptide pharmacology.Pharmacological reviews · 2012
- Pharmacological Classes of Conus Peptides Targeted to Calcium, Sodium, and Potassium Channels.Protein and peptide letters · 2023
- Conus peptides: biodiversity-based discovery and exogenomics.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2006
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- Distribution and habitat
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|200 px|Fossil Conus pelagicus from the Pliocene of Cyprus
Conus is a genus of venomous and predatory cone snails. Prior to 2009, it included all cone snail species but is now more precisely defined.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Conus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.