''Profundiconus'' is a

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s in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2011). ''Profundiconus'' Kuroda, 1956. Accessed through:

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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=428962 on 2012-01-21 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
/ref> 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
/ref> This genus is the type genus of the subfamily Profundiconinae Limpalaër & Monnier, 2018. This is an alternate representation for the family Conidae.

Species

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Profundiconus barazeri ''Profundiconus barazeri'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.MolluscaBase (2018). Profundiconus barazeri Tenorio & Castelin, 2016. Accessed through: World Register of ...

'' Tenorio & Castelin, 2016 * '' Profundiconus cakobaui'' (Moolenbeek, Röckel & Bouchet, 2008) * '' Profundiconus dondani'' (Kosuge, 1981) * '' Profundiconus emersoni'' (Hanna, 1963) * ''

Profundiconus frausseni ''Profundiconus frausseni'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2015). Profundiconus frausseni (Tenorio & Poppe, 2004). Accessed through: World Register of ...

'' (Tenorio & Poppe, 2004) * † '' Profundiconus hennigi'' Hendricks, 2015 * '' Profundiconus ikedai'' (Ninomiya, 1987) * '' Profundiconus jeanmartini'' G. Raybaudi Massilia, 1992 * '' Profundiconus kanakinus'' (Richard, 1983) * ''

Profundiconus lani ''Profundiconus lani'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2015). Profundiconus lani (Crandall, 1979). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at ...

'' (Crandall, 1979) * ''

Profundiconus limpalaeri ''Profundiconus limpalaeri'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.MolluscaBase (2018). Profundiconus limpalaeri Tenorio & Monnier, 2016. Accessed through: World Register ...

'' Tenorio & Monnier, 2016 * '' Profundiconus loyaltiensis'' (Röckel & Moolenbeek, 1995) * ''

Profundiconus maribelae ''Profundiconus maribelae'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.MolluscaBase (2018). Profundiconus maribelae Tenorio & Castelin, 2016. Accessed through: World Register o ...

'' Tenorio & Castelin, 2016 * ''

Profundiconus neocaledonicus ''Profundiconus neocaledonicus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.MolluscaBase (2018). Profundiconus neocaledonicus Tenorio & Castelin, 2016. Accessed through: World ...

'' Tenorio & Castelin, 2016 * ''

Profundiconus neotorquatus ''Profundiconus neotorquatus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.MolluscaBase (2018). Profundiconus neotorquatus (da Motta, 1985). Accessed through: World Register of ...

'' (da Motta, 1985) * '' Profundiconus pacificus'' (Moolenbeek & Röckel, 1996) * ''

Profundiconus profundorum ''Profundiconus profundorum'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. Like all species within the genus ''Profundiconus'', these cone snails are predatory and venomous. Th ...

'' (Kuroda, 1956) * ''

Profundiconus puillandrei ''Profundiconus puillandrei'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.MolluscaBase (2018). Profundiconus puillandrei Tenorio & Castelin, 2016. Accessed through: World Regist ...

'' Tenorio & Castelin, 2016 * ''

Profundiconus rashafunensis ''Profundiconus'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the Conus, cone snails and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2011). ''Profundiconus'' Kuroda, 1956. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http:/ ...

'' Bozzetti, 2021 * ''

Profundiconus robmoolenbeeki ''Profundiconus robmoolenbeeki'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.MolluscaBase (2018). Profundiconus robmoolenbeeki Tenorio, 2016. Accessed through: World Register of ...

'' Tenorio, 2016 * '' Profundiconus scopulicola'' Okutani, 1972 * ''

Profundiconus smirna ''Profundiconus smirna'', common name the Smirna cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. Like all species within the genus ''Profundiconus'', these cone snails are p ...

'' (Bartsch & Rehder, 1943) * ''

Profundiconus smirnoides ''Profundiconus smirnoides'' is a species of sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2015). Profundiconus smirnoides. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register ...

'' Tenorio, 2015 * '' Profundiconus stahlschmidti'' Tenorio & Tucker, 2014 * '' Profundiconus tarava'' (Rabiller & Richard, 2014) * '' Profundiconus teramachii'' (Kuroda, 1956) * ''

Profundiconus tuberculosus ''Profundiconus tuberculosus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the Conus, cone snails and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2015). Profundiconus tuberculosus (Tomlin, 1937). Accessed through: World Register o ...

'' (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 ''

'' (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
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