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| Conus (Stephanoconus) | |
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| Apertural view of shell of Conus brunneus (Wood, 1828), with operculum, measuring 61.7 mm in height, collected at Sayrilita, Mexico | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Subgenus: | Stephanoconus Mörch, 1852 |
| Type species | |
| Conus leucostictus Gmelin, 1791 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Stephanoconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1][2]
In the latest classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Stephanoconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Stephanoconus)Mörch, 1852 (type species: Conus leucostictus Gmelin, 1791) represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758[3]
Species
[edit]- Stephanoconus bartschi (Hanna & Strong, 1949) represented as Conus bartschi G. D. Hanna & Strong, 1949 (alternate representation)
- Stephanoconus brunneus (W. Wood, 1828) represented as Conus brunneus Wood, 1828 (alternate representation)
- Stephanoconus regius (Gmelin, 1791) represented as Conus regius Gmelin, 1791 (alternate representation)
References
[edit]- 1 2 Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2026). "Conus (Stephanoconus) Mörch, 1852". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
- ↑ 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
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