Conus (Gastridium)
| Conus (Gastridium) | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Conus geographus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Subgenus: | Gastridium Modeer, 1793 |
| Type species | |
| Conus geographus Linnaeus, 1758
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Gastridium is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
In the latest classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Gastridium has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Gastridium) represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758.