Profundiconus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1][2][3]
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| Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Profundiconus lani (Crandall, 1979) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Profundiconus Kuroda, 1956 |
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| Chelyconus profundorum Kuroda, 1956
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As the name of the genus suggests, these species live in deep water. It is presumed that they are vermivorous.[4]
This genus is the type genus of the subfamily Profundiconinae Limpalaër & Monnier, 2018. This is an alternate representation for the family Conidae.
Species edit
- Profundiconus barazeri Tenorio & Castelin, 2016
- 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 limpalaeri Tenorio & Monnier, 2016
- Profundiconus loyaltiensis (Röckel & Moolenbeek, 1995)
- Profundiconus maribelae Tenorio & Castelin, 2016
- Profundiconus neocaledonicus Tenorio & Castelin, 2016
- Profundiconus neotorquatus (da Motta, 1985)
- Profundiconus pacificus (Moolenbeek & Röckel, 1996)
- Profundiconus profundorum (Kuroda, 1956)
- Profundiconus puillandrei Tenorio & Castelin, 2016
- Profundiconus rashafunensis Bozzetti, 2021
- Profundiconus robmoolenbeeki Tenorio, 2016
- Profundiconus scopulicola Okutani, 1972
- Profundiconus smirna (Bartsch & Rehder, 1943)
- Profundiconus smirnoides Tenorio, 2015
- Profundiconus stahlschmidti Tenorio & Tucker, 2014
- Profundiconus tarava (Rabiller & Richard, 2014)
- Profundiconus teramachii (Kuroda, 1956)
- Profundiconus tuberculosus (Tomlin, 1937)
- Profundiconus vaubani (Röckel & Moolenbeek, 1995)
- Profundiconus virginiae Tenorio & Castelin, 2016
- Profundiconus weii Lorenz & Barbier, 2019
- 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 edit
- ^ a b 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
- Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp.
External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Profundiconus.
- To World Register of Marine Species
- 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
- Tenorio M.J. & Castelin M. (2016). Genus Profundiconus Kuroda, 1956 (Gastropoda, Conoidea): Morphological and molecular studies, with the description of five new species from the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia. European Journal of Taxonomy. 173: 1-45
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