Conorbis is a genus of sea snail

Sea snail

Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family

Family (biology)

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 Conorbidae

Conorbidae

Conorbidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.In 2009, John K. Tucker and Manuel J. Tenorio elevated the subfamily Conorbiinae to the rank of family...

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This genus was formerly classified in the family Conidae by Vredenburg (1921) in the clade Neogastropoda

Neogastropoda

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 by Sepkoski (2002) and in the subfamily Conorbiinae by Harzhauser (2007).

Conorbis is the type genus of the family Conorbidae

Conorbidae

Conorbidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.In 2009, John K. Tucker and Manuel J. Tenorio elevated the subfamily Conorbiinae to the rank of family...

. The type species of the genus Conorbis is extinct.

Species

Species within the genus Conorbis include:

• † Conorbis bhagothorensis Vredenburg, 1925 - fossil species from the Oligocene
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   in Pakistan
  Pakistan
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• † 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; this fossil species is found in the Oligocene in Italy
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   and Oman
  Oman
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• † Conorbis sindiensis Vredenburg, 1925 - fossil species from the Early Miocene in Pakistan.
• † Conorbis veselovi Amitrov, 2008

Species brought into synonymy :

• Conorbis adamii Bozzetti, 1994 : synonym of Genotina adamii (Bozzetti, 1994)
• Conorbis coromandelicus (E. A. Smith, 1894) : synonym of Pseudoconorbis coromandelicus (E.A. Smith, 1894)