Kenyonia
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| Subgenus: | Kenyonia Brazier, 1896 |
Kenyonia is a genus or subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1][2]
In the new classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Kenyonia has become a subgenus of Conus: Conus (Kenyonia) Brazier, 1896 represented as Conus Thiele, 1929[3]
In the same study it is also treated as genus incertae sedis within the family Conidae. In 1966 Powell suggested this was actually a turrid, and thought it to be synonym to Conopleura.[4] A re-evaluation was made by an article in the malacological journal Nautilus by Donn L. Tippetl and John K. Tucker: Taxonomic Notes on Kenyonia Brazier and Conopleura Hinds (Gastropoda: Conoidea) and concluded to it belongs to the Conidae, based on the extensive interior re-modeling of the shell.[5]