Ximeniconus is subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conasprella, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1]

Ximeniconus
Apertural view of shell of Conasprella ximenes (Gray, 1839)
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Ximeniconus

Emerson & Old, 1962
Type species
Conus ximenes Gray, 1839
Synonyms

Conasprella (Ximeniconus) Emerson & Old, 1962

In the new classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Ximeniconus has become a subgenus of Conasprella: Conasprella (Ximeniconus) Emerson & Old, 1962 represented as Conasprella Thiele, 1929 [2]

Species

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  • Ximeniconus gubernatrix Petuch & Berschauer, 2018 : synonym of Conasprella (Ximeniconus) gubernatrix (Petuch & Berschauer, 2018) represented as Conasprella gubernatrix (Petuch & Berschauer, 2018) (original combination)
  • Ximeniconus mahogani (Reeve, 1843) represented as Conasprella mahogani (Reeve, 1843) (alternate representation)
  • Ximeniconus ximenes (Gray, 1839): synonym of Conasprella ximenes Gray, 1839

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