Lautoconus

Lautoconus
Apertural view of shell of Conus hybridus (Kiener, 1845).
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Lautoconus

Monterosato, 1923
Type species
Conus mediterraneus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792
Synonyms
  • Africonus Petuch, 1975
  • Conus (Lautoconus) Monterosato, 1923
  • Varioconus da Motta, 1991

Lautoconus 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), 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