Hermes is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1]
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Apertural view of shell of Conus nussatella Linnaeus, 1758 collected off Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | |
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Subgenus: | Hermes Montfort, 1810
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Conus nussatella Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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Theliconus Swainson, 1840 |
In the new classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Hermes has become a subgenus of Conus: Conus (Hermes) Montfort, 1810 (type species: Conus nussatella Linnaeus, 1758) represented as Conus Thiele, 1929[2]
The Tucker & Tenorio 2009 taxonomy distinguishes Hermes from Conus in the following ways:[3]
This list of species is based on the information in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) list. Species within the genus Hermes include:[1]
The following species have become synonyms of other subgenera of Conus or Conasprella.