Leptoconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1]
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Abapertural view of a shell of Leptoconus milneedwardsi (Jousseaume, 1894). | |
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Subgenus: | Leptoconus Swainson, 1840
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Conus amadis Gmelin, 1791 | |
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In the latest classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Leptoconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Leptoconus) Swainson, 1840 (type species: Conus amadis Gmelin, 1791) represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758 [2]
The Tucker & Tenorio 2009 taxonomy distinguishes Leptoconus 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 Leptoconus include:[1]