Conus (Lautoconus)
| Conus (Lautoconus) | |
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| Apertural view of shell of Conus hybridus (Kiener, 1845). | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Subgenus: | Lautoconus Monterosato, 1923 |
| Type species | |
| Conus mediterraneus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792
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Lautoconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs 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), Lautoconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Lautoconus) Monterosato, 1923(type species: Conus mediterraneus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792) represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758