Profundiconus
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| Profundiconus Temporal range: | |
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| Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Profundiconus lani (Crandall, 1979) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Profundiconus Kuroda, 1956 |
| Type species | |
| Chelyconus profundorum Kuroda, 1956 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Profundiconus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1][2][3]
As the name of the genus suggests, these species live in deep water. It is presumed that they are vermivorous.[4]
This genus is the type genus of the subfamily Profundiconinae Limpalaër & Monnier, 2018. This is an alternate representation for the family Conidae.
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