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Taxonomy: For all marine species, Project Gastropods uses the taxonomy in the online database WoRMS. When starting a new article, do not use sources of taxonomic information that predate the 2017 revision for all gastropod groups ("Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod and Monoplacophoran Families" by Philippe Bouchet & Jean-Pierre Rocroi, Bernhard Hausdorf, Andrzej Kaim, Yasunori Kano, Alexander Nützel, Pavel Parkhaev, Michael Schrödl and Ellen E. Strong in Malacologia, 2017, 61(1–2): 1–526.) (can be dowloaded at Researchgate.net), substituting the previous classification of 2005 Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). If you need help with any aspect of an article, please leave a note at the Project talk page.
For anyone contemplating adding to this article, please bear in mind that the article is not about the old genus Conus, which included every species of cone snail.
The new definition of Conus is more precise, and contains significantly fewer species. If you want to write using sources about cones snails in general, please consider contributing to the article cone snail, or perhaps to the family article Conidae, if the definition of the family has not changed as per the database WoRMS. Please bear in mind that many books that you might want to use as sources used the old definition of Conus. Thank you. Invertzoo (talk) 14:03, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
