Profundiconus

Profundiconus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.^[1][2][3]

Profundiconus Temporal range: Eocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Profundiconus lani (Crandall, 1979)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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]
Conus (Profundiconus) Kuroda, 1956 Lizaconus da Motta, 1991

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.

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)