Monteiroconus 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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Apertural view of shell of Conus ambiguus (Reeve, 1844) collected off the coast of Senegal. | |
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Subgenus: | Monteiroconus da Motta, 1991
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Conus ambiguus Reeve, 1844 | |
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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), Monteiroconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Monteiroconus) da Motta, 1991 (type species Conus ambiguus Reeve, 1844) represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758 [2]
The Tucker & Tenorio 2009 taxonomy distinguishes Monteiroconus 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 Monteiroconus include:[1]