Profundiconus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1][2][3]

Profundiconus
Temporal range: Eocene–Recent
Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Profundiconus lani (Crandall, 1979)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Profundiconus
Kuroda, 1956
Type species
Chelyconus profundorum
Kuroda, 1956
Synonyms[1]
  • Conus (Profundiconus) Kuroda, 1956
  • Lizaconus da Motta, 1991

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

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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

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  • Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp.
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