Conus lyelli is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]
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| Several shells of Conus lyelli; the colored specimens are reversed images of specimens photographed under UV light; the two specimens below right are specimens of Conus xenicus Pilsbry and Johnson, 1917 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Species: | †C. lyelli
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| Binomial name | |
| †Conus lyelli Hendricks, 2015
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Description
editThe size of the shell attains 29.4 mm. Conus lyelli shows tubercles on all postnuclear whorls. This species is different from any known extant species. This suggests that it, along with Conus xenicus, may be members of an extinct clade of cone snails.
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Distribution
editThis marine species is only known in the fossil state from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic.
References
edit- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus lyelli. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=843130 on 2015-10-24
External links
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