Conus (Cylinder) Montfort, 1810 accepted, alternate reoresentation of Conus Linnaeus, 1758 Cylinder is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conus, in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
[1] In the new classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M.
[2] The same study found Cylinder to be polyphyletic, but morphologically consistent, possibly corresponding to grades.
The Tucker & Tenorio 2009 taxonomy distinguishes Cylinder from Conus in the following ways:[3] This list of species is based on the information in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) list.
Species within the genus Cylinder include:[1]