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Puncticulis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Conidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Conoidea

Rank
  
Genus

Puncticulis

Subgenus
  
Puncticulis Swainson, 1840

Similar
  
Virroconus, Conus arenatus, Dendroconus, Conus pulicarius, Miliariconus

Puncticulis is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

In the latest classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Puncticulis has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Puncticulis)Swainson, 1840 (type species: Conus arenatus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792) represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758

Species

  • Puncticulis arenatus (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792) represented as Conus arenatus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 (alternate representation)
  • Puncticulis pulicarius (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792) represented as Conus pulicarius Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 (alternate representation)
  • Puncticulis zeylanicus (Gmelin, 1791) represented as Conus zeylanicus Gmelin, 1791 (alternate representation)
  • Conus (Puncticulis) caracteristicus Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 represented as Conus caracteristicus Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
  • Conus (Puncticulis) vautieri Kiener, 1847 represented as Conus vautieri Kiener, 1847

    • References

    Puncticulis Wikipedia
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