Profundiconus
| Profundiconus Temporal range: Eocene–Recent | |
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| Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Profundiconus lani (Crandall, 1979) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Profundiconus Kuroda, 1956 |
| Type species | |
| Chelyconus profundorum Kuroda, 1956 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Profundiconus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1][2][3]
As the name of the genus suggests, these species live in deep water. It is presumed that they are vermivorous. [4]
Species
- Profundiconus cakobaui (Moolenbeek, Röckel & Bouchet, 2008)
- Profundiconus dondani (Kosuge, 1981)
- Profundiconus emersoni (Hanna, 1963)
- Profundiconus frausseni (Tenorio & Poppe, 2004)
- † Profundiconus hennigi Hendricks, 2015
- Profundiconus ikedai (Ninomiya, 1987)
- Profundiconus jeanmartini G. Raybaudi Massilia, 1992
- Profundiconus kanakinus (Richard, 1983)
- Profundiconus lani (Crandall, 1979)
- Profundiconus loyaltiensis (Röckel & Moolenbeek, 1995)
- Profundiconus pacificus (Moolenbeek & Röckel, 1996)
- Profundiconus profundorum (Kuroda, 1956)
- Profundiconus scopulicola Okutani, 1972
- Profundiconus smirna (Bartsch & Rehder, 1943)
- Profundiconus smirnoides Tenorio, 2015
- Profundiconus stahlschmidti Tenorio & Tucker, 2014
- Profundiconus teramachii (Kuroda, 1956)
- Profundiconus tuberculosus (Tomlin, 1937)
- Profundiconus vaubani (Röckel & Moolenbeek, 1995)
- Profundiconus zardoyai Tenorio, 2015
- Species brought into synonymy
- Profundiconus bayeri (Petuch, 1987): synonym of Conus bayeri Petuch, 1987
- Profundiconus darkini (Röckel, Korn & Richard, 1993) represented as Conus darkini Röckel, Korn & Richard, 1993 (alternate representation)
- Profundiconus luciae (Moolenbeek, 1986) represented as Conus luciae Moolenbeek, 1986 (alternate representation)
- Profundiconus soyomaruae Okutani, 1964: synonym of Conus profundorum' (Kuroda, 1956), synonym of Profundiconus profundorum (Kuroda, 1956)
References
- 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2011). Profundiconus Kuroda, 1956. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=428962 on 2012-01-21
- ↑ Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp.
- ↑ Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1-23
- ↑ M Jiménez-Tenorio (2011), Cone radular anatomy as a proxy for phylogeny and for conotoxin diversity; researchgate.net
External links
| External identifiers for Profundiconus | |
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| WoRMS | 428962 |
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