Conus (Plagioconus) Tucker & Tenorio, 2009

Psarras, Christos, Merle, Didier & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2022, Late Miocene Conidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Crete (Greece). Part 2, European Journal of Taxonomy 816, pp. 1-70 : 45

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scientific name	Conus (Plagioconus) Tucker & Tenorio, 2009
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Subgenus Conus (Plagioconus) Tucker & Tenorio, 2009

Type species (by original designation)

Conus elatus Michelotti, 1847 View in CoL . Burdigalian of Italy (Colli Torinesi) ( Hall 1966); Langhian of Paratethys (see Harzhauser & Landau 2016 for more references); Tortonian of Italy (Sant’Agatha fossili, Stazzano, Montegibbio) ( Sacco 1893a) and Greece (Messara Basin, Crete) (this work).

Diagnosis

Elongated last whorl, medium to high spire whorl height, beaded early spire whorls. Spiral sculpture on the ramp finely to distinctly striate. Subsutural flexure shallow ( Tucker & Tenorio 2009). Deep-very deep, moderately-strongly asymmetrical, moderately-strongly curved, subsutural flexures ( Harzhauser & Landau 2016).

Remarks

Tucker & Tenorio (2009) first described Plagioconus at genus level and were followed by Harzhauser & Landau (2016), who, in turn, proposed an emended description, according to their Paratethyan species. On the other hand, Puillandre et al. (2014, 2015) placed many genera of Conidae as subgenera under the genus Conus . Morphologically, this group of species can be included in the genus Conus , thus, we refer here to Plagioconus at the subgeneric level.

References

Hall C. A. Jr. 1966. Middle Miocene Conus (Class Gastropoda) from Piedmont, Northern Italy. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 3 (2): 111 - 171.

Harzhauser M. & Landau B. 2016. A revision of the Neogene Conidae and Conorbidae (Gastropoda) of the Paratethys Sea. Zootaxa 4210 (1): 1 - 178. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4210.1.1

Michelotti G. 1847. Description des fossiles des terrains miocenes de l'Italie septentrionale. A. Arnz & Comp.

Puillandre N., Bouchet P., Duda T. F., Kauferstein S., Kohn A. J., Olivera B. M., Watkins M. & Meyer C. 2014. Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the cone snails (Gastropoda, Conoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 78: 290 - 303. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2014.05.023

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. The Journal of Molluscan Studies 81 (1): 1 - 23. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / mollus / eyu 055

Sacco F. 1893 a. I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Torino.

Tucker J. K. & Tenorio M. J. 2009. Systematic Classification of Recent and Fossil Conoidean Gastropods: With Keys to the Genera of Cone Shells. ConchBooks, Harxheim.