Profundiconus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2011). Profundiconus Kuroda, 1956. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=428962 on 2012-01-21Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp. Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1-23
As the name of the genus suggests, these species live in deep water. It is presumed that they are vermivorous.M Jiménez-Tenorio (2011), Cone radular anatomy as a proxy for phylogeny and for conotoxin diversity; researchgate.net
This genus is the type genus of the subfamily Profundiconinae Limpalaër & Monnier, 2018. This is an alternate representation for the family Conidae.
Species Profundiconus barazeri Tenorio & Castelin, 2016 Profundiconus cakobaui (Moolenbeek, Röckel & Bouchet, 2008) Profundiconus dondani (Kosuge, 1981) Profundiconus emersoni (Hanna, 1963) Profundiconus frausseni (Tenorio & Poppe, 2004) † Profundiconus hennigi Hendricks, 2015 Profundiconus ikedai (Ninomiya, 1987) Profundiconus jeanmartini G. Raybaudi Massilia, 1992 Profundiconus kanakinus (Richard, 1983) Profundiconus lani (Crandall, 1979) Profundiconus limpalaeri Tenorio & Monnier, 2016 Profundiconus loyaltiensis (Röckel & Moolenbeek, 1995) Profundiconus maribelae Tenorio & Castelin, 2016 Profundiconus neocaledonicus Tenorio & Castelin, 2016 Profundiconus neotorquatus (da Motta, 1985) Profundiconus pacificus (Moolenbeek & Röckel, 1996) Profundiconus profundorum (Kuroda, 1956) Profundiconus puillandrei Tenorio & Castelin, 2016 Profundiconus rashafunensis Bozzetti, 2021 Profundiconus robmoolenbeeki Tenorio, 2016 Profundiconus scopulicola Okutani, 1972 Profundiconus smirna (Bartsch & Rehder, 1943) Profundiconus smirnoides Tenorio, 2015 Profundiconus stahlschmidti Tenorio & Tucker, 2014 Profundiconus tarava (Rabiller & Richard, 2014) Profundiconus teramachii (Kuroda, 1956) Profundiconus tuberculosus (Tomlin, 1937) Profundiconus vaubani (Röckel & Moolenbeek, 1995) Profundiconus virginiae Tenorio & Castelin, 2016 Profundiconus weii Lorenz & Barbier, 2019 Profundiconus zardoyai Tenorio, 2015 Species brought into synonymy Profundiconus bayeri (Petuch, 1987): synonym of Conus bayeri Petuch, 1987 Profundiconus darkini (Röckel, Korn & Richard, 1993) represented as Conus darkini Röckel, Korn & Richard, 1993 (alternate representation) Profundiconus luciae (Moolenbeek, 1986) represented as Conus luciae Moolenbeek, 1986 (alternate representation) Profundiconus soyomaruae Okutani, 1964: synonym of Conus profundorum (Kuroda, 1956), synonym of Profundiconus profundorum (Kuroda, 1956)
References
Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp.
External links
To World Register of Marine Species Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1-23 Tenorio M.J. & Castelin M. (2016). Genus Profundiconus Kuroda, 1956 (Gastropoda, Conoidea): Morphological and molecular studies, with the description of five new species from the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia. European Journal of Taxonomy. 173: 1-45