Conus (Lindaconus)
Subgenus of sea snails in the family Conidae
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Lindaconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1][2]
| Conus (Lindaconus) | |
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| Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Conus lindae (Petuch, E.J., 1987) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Subgenus: | Lindaconus Petuch, 2002 |
| Type species | |
| Conus lindae Petuch, 1987 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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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), Lindaconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Lindaconus) Petuch, 2002 (type species: Conus lindae Petuch, 1987) represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758[3]
Species
The following species are alternate representation:[1]
- Lindaconus bahamensis (Vink & Röckel, 1995): synonym of Conus (Lindaconus) bahamensis Vink & Röckel, 1995 represented as Conus bahamensis Vink & Röckel, 1995
- Lindaconus lindae (Petuch, 1987): synonym of Conus (Lindaconus) lindae Petuch, 1987 represented as Conus lindae Petuch, 1987
- Lindaconus spurius (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Conus (Lindaconus) spurius Gmelin, 1791 represented as Conus spurius Gmelin, 1791
- Lindaconus spurius baylei (Jousseaume, 1872): synonym of Conus spurius baylei Jousseaume, 1872
- Lindaconus therriaulti Petuch, 2013: synonym of Conus (Lindaconus) therriaulti (Petuch, 2013) represented as Conus therriaulti (Petuch, 2013)
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