Subgenus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sciteconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1][2]
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| Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Conus bairstowi (Sowerby III, 1889) | |
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| Subgenus: | Sciteconus da Motta, 1991 |
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| Conus algoensis G. B. Sowerby I, 1834 | |
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Conus (Sciteconus) da Motta, 1991 | |
In the latest classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Sciteconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Sciteconus)da Motta, 1991 (type species: Conus algoensis G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758 [3]
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