Conus (Lautoconus) Monterosato 1923
Authors/Creators
- 1. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Historical Geology-Paleontology, Athens, Greece.
- 2. Sorbonne Université - CR 2 P - MNHN, CNRS, UPMC-Paris 6 and Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Département Origine et Évolution, 8 rue Buffon 75005 Paris, France.
Description
Subgenus Conus (Lautoconus) Monterosato, 1923
Type species
Conus mediterraneus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 (Recent, Mediterranean Sea) by original designation.
Diagnosis
Moderately small to moderately large, turnip-shaped species. Medium-wide to wide shells and convex sides. Spire low to moderately high. Paucispiral protoconch. Early whorls ornamented with cords, which might persist on later spire whorls or appear as spiral threads. Subsutural flexure from very shallow to deep, usually moderately curved, moderately asymmetrical. colour pattern variable, displaying blotches, spiral rows of dots, dashes, and tents in multiple combinations.
Remarks
Puillandre et al. (2014, 2015) treated Lautoconus at the subgenus level. In this work we show two species that are large-sized (Conus (Lautoconus) damianakisi sp. nov. and Conus (Lautoconus) lauriatragei sp. nov.). The species of the subgenus display an intraspecific morphological variability, as it is here shown for more than one species. The colour patterns are also variable, displaying patterns such as blotches, spiral rows of dots, dashes and tents in multiple combinations (see Monnier et al. 2018). We follow Harzhauser & Landau (2016) in excluding from this subgenus the species with tuberculate spire whorls. The oldest occurrence in Greece is reported from the early Miocene (Thivaiou et al. 2019) by an incomplete specimen (AMPG(IV) 2473). However, the attribution to Lautoconus seems doubtful and this specimen could possibly belong to Conus (Eoconus) Tucker & Tenorio, 2009 (see more in Tracey et al. 2017).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Monterosato
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Conidae
- Genus
- Conus
- Taxon rank
- subGenus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Conus (Lautoconus) Monterosato, 1923 sec. Psarras, Merle & Koskeridou, 2022
References
- 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
- Monnier E., Limpalaer L., Robin A. & Roux C. 2018. A Taxonomic Iconography of the Living Conidae, Volumes 1 - 2. Conchbooks, Harxheim.
- 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
- Thivaiou D., Harzhauser M. & Koskeridou E. 2019. Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea, NW Greece). Geodiversitas 41 (8): 323 - 366. https: // doi. org / 10.5252 / geodiversitas 2019 v 41 a 8
- 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.
- Tracey S., Craig B., Belliard L. & Gain O. 2017. One, four or forty species? Early Conidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) that led to a radiation and biodiversity peak in the late Lutetian Eocene of the Cotentin, NW France. Carnets de Voyages paleontologiques dans le Bassin Anglo-Parisien 3: 1 - 38.