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Conasprella (Ximeniconus)

Ximeniconus is subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the genus Conasprella, family Conidae.

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Conasprella (Ximeniconus)
Apertural view of shell of Conasprella ximenes (Gray, 1839)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conasprella
Subgenus: Ximeniconus
Emerson & Old, 1962
Type species
Conus ximenes
Gray, 1839
Synonyms
  • Conus (Ximeniconus) W. K. Emerson & Old, 1962
  • Globiconus J. K. Tucker & M. Tenorio, 2009
  • Jaspidiconus Petuch, 2003
  • Perplexiconus J. K. Tucker & M. Tenorio, 2009
  • Ximeniconus W. K. Emerson & Old, 1962
  • Ximeniconus (Perplexiconus) J. K. Tucker & M. Tenorio, 2009
  • Ximeniconus (Ximeniconus) W. K. Emerson & Old, 1962

Ximeniconus is subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the genus Conasprella, family Conidae.1

In the new classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Ximeniconus has become a subgenus of Conasprella: Conasprella (Ximeniconus) Emerson & Old, 1962 represented as Conasprella Thiele, 19292

Species

  • Ximeniconus gubernatrix Petuch & Berschauer, 2018 : synonym of Conasprella (Ximeniconus) gubernatrix (Petuch & Berschauer, 2018) represented as Conasprella gubernatrix (Petuch & Berschauer, 2018) (original combination)
  • Ximeniconus mahogani (Reeve, 1843) represented as Conasprella mahogani (Reeve, 1843) (alternate representation)
  • Ximeniconus ximenes (Gray, 1839): synonym of Conasprella ximenes Gray, 1839
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