Quasiconus 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 melvilli (Sowerby, G.B. III, 1879) | |
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Subgenus: | Quasiconus Tucker & Tenorio, 2009
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Conus melvilli G. B. Sowerby III, 1879 |
In the latest classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Quasiconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Quasiconus)Tucker & Tenorio, 2009 (type species:Conus melvilli G. B. Sowerby III, 1879 ) represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758 [2]