Virroconus 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 chaldaeus (Röding, 1798) | |
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Genus: | Virroconus Iredale, 1930
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Conus ebraeus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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Conus (Virroconus) Iredale, 1930 |
In the latest classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Virroconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Virroconus) Iredale, 1930 (type species: Conus ebraeus Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Conus Linnaeus, 1758 [3]