Conus (Strategoconus)
Subgenus of gastropods
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Strategoconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[2][3]
| Conus (Strategoconus) | |
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| Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Conus generalis (Linnaeus, 1767) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Subgenus: | Strategoconus da Motta, 1991 |
| Type species | |
| Conus generalis Linnaeus, 1767 | |
| 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), Strategoconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Strategoconus)da Motta, 1991 (type species:Conus generalis Linnaeus, 1767) represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758[4]
Species
The following species are alternate representation:[2]
- Strategoconus generalis (Linnaeus, 1767) represented as Conus generalis Linnaeus, 1767 (alternate representation)
- Strategoconus litoglyphus (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792) represented as Conus litoglyphus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 (alternate representation)
- Strategoconus litteratus (Linnaeus, 1758) represented as Conus litteratus Linnaeus, 1758 (alternate representation)
- Strategoconus maldivus (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792) represented as Conus maldivus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 (alternate representation)
- Strategoconus monile (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792) represented as Conus monile Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 (alternate representation)
- Strategoconus splendidulus (G.B. Sowerby I, 1833) represented as Conus splendidulus G. B. Sowerby I, 1833 (alternate representation)
- Strategoconus thomae (Gmelin, 1791) represented as Conus thomae Gmelin, 1791 (alternate representation)
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