Boucheticonus

Boucheticonus is a subgenus of sea snails, cone snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conasprella, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1]

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Boucheticonus

Tucker & Tenorio, 2013
Type species
Conus alisi Moolenbeek, Röckel & Richard, 1995
Synonyms

Conasprella (Boucheticonus) Tucker & Tenorio, 2013 represented as Conasprella Thiele, 1929

In the new classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Boucheticonus has become a subgenus of Conasprella: Conasprella (Boucheticonus) Tucker & Tenorio, 2013 represented as Conasprella Thiele, 1929 [2]

Species list

This list of species is based on the information in the WoRMS list. Species within the genus Boucheticonus include:[1]

  • Boucheticonus alisi (Moolenbeek, Röckel & Richard, 1995): synonym of Conasprella alisi (Moolenbeek, Röckel & Richard, 1995)
  • Boucheticonus dayriti (Röckel & da Motta, 1983): synonym of Conus dayriti Röckel & da Motta, 1983

References

  • Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2013) Illustrated catalog of the living cone shells. 517 pp. Wellington, Florida: MdM Publishing. page(s): 22-23
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