Artemidiconus

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Genus of gastropods

title: "Artemidiconus" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["artemidiconus", "monotypic-gastropod-genera"] description: "Genus of gastropods" topic_path: "general/artemidiconus" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemidiconus" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of gastropods ::

| image = | image_caption = | taxon = Artemidiconus | authority = da Motta, 1991 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = | type_species = Conus selenae | type_species_authority = van Mol, Tursch & Kempf, 1967 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text

Artemidiconus is a monospecific genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conorbidae.

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 added to the family Conorbidae by Tucker & Tenorio (2009) 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

Species

The only known species within the genus Artemidiconus is:

References

  • da Motta, A.J. (1991) A Systematic Classification of the Gastropod Family Conidae at the Generic Level. La Conchiglia, Rome. 48 pp,.

References

  1. [https://archive.today/20120710161524/http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/77/3/273.full Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.]
  2. Bouchet, P. (2011). Artemidiconus da Motta, 1991. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=577954 on 2011-08-12

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