Phasmoconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1][2]
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Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Conus andamanensis (E.A. Smith, 1878) | |
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Subgenus: | Phasmoconus Mörch, 1852
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Conus radiatus 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), Phasmoconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Phasmoconus) Mörch, 1852 (type species: Conus radiatus Gmelin, 1791 ) represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758 [3]
The Tucker & Tenorio 2009 taxonomy distinguishes Phasmoconus from Conus in the following ways:[4]
This list of species is based on the information in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) list. Species within the genus Phasmoconus include:[1]