Plicaustraconus 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 and abapertural views of shell of Conus advertex (Garrard, T.A., 1961) | |
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Subgenus: | Plicaustraconus Moolenbeek, 2008
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Conus advertex (Garrard, 1961) | |
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Conus (Plicaustraconus) Moolenbeek, 2008 |
In the latest classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Plicaustraconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Plicaustraconus) Moolenbeek, 2008 (type species:Conus advertex (Garrard, 1961)) 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 Plicaustraconus include:[1]