Brasiliconus

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

Brasiliconus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Conoidea
Family:
Conidae
Genus:
Conus
Subgenus:
Brasiliconus

Petuch, 2013
Type species
Conus scopulorum van Mol, Tursch & Kempf, 1971
Synonyms

Conus (Brasiliconus) Petuch, 2013 represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758

In the new classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Brasiliconus has become a subgenus of Conus: Conus (Brasiliconus) Petuch, 2013 represented as Conus Thiele, 1929 [2]

Species list

This list of species is based on the information in the WoRMS list. Species within the genus Brasiliconus include:[1]

  • Brasiliconus scopulorum (van Mol, Tursch & Kempf, 1971): synonym of Conus (Brasiliconus) scopulorum van Mol, Tursch & Kempf, 1971 represented as Conus scopulorum van Mol, Tursch & Kempf, 1971
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References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Brasiliconus Petuch, 2013. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=730542 on 2015-06-11
  2. 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
  • Petuch E. (2013) Biogeography and biodiversity of western Atlantic mollusks. CRC Press. 252 pp.
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