Virgiconus 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 berdulinus (M. Veillard, 1972) | |
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Subgenus: | Virgiconus Cotton, 1945
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Conus (Virgiconus) Cotton, 1945 & type_species= Conus virgo Linnaeus, 1758 |
In the latest classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Virgiconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Virgiconus) Cotton, 1945 (type species: Conus virgo Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Conus Linnaeus, 1758 [3]