Kalloconus da Motta, 1991

Psarras, Christos, Koskeridou, Efterpi & Merle, Didier, 2021, Late Miocene Conidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Crete (Greece). Part 1: genera Conilithes Swainson, 1840 and Conus (Kalloconus) da Motta, 1991, Geodiversitas 43 (24), pp. 1309-1339 : 1321-1322

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a24
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5768111
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scientific name	Kalloconus da Motta, 1991
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Treatment

Subgenus Kalloconus da Motta, 1991 View in CoL

Trovaoconus Tucker &Tenorio, 2009: 126 View in CoL . — Conus venulatus Hwass View in CoL in Bruguière, 1792 (Recent: West-Africa) by original designation.

TYPE SPECIES. — Conus pulcher Lightfoot, 1786 View in CoL (Recent, West Africa) by original designation.

DIAGNOSIS. — Protoconch multispiral. Teleoconch squat to moderately elongate, obconic shells with broad and rounded shoulders. Spire whorls low to very low, smooth, convex. Subsutural flexure very shallow in small species - deep in larger species, moderately curved and moderately asymmetrical. Colour pattern consists mainly of spirally arranged spots and dashes in continuous spiral rows (Diagnosis followingTucker & Tenorio (2009) and Harzhauser & Landau (2016).

REMARKS

Puillandre et al. (2014) considered Kalloconus at subgenus level and found a monophyletic group. Today Kalloconus is restricted to the tropical East Atlantic (West Africa), but its fossil record demonstrates that it also had a European distribution during the Miocene in the Proto- Mediterranean and Paratethys. Conus (Kalloconus) can be distinguished from Conus (Monteiroconus) , mainly by the lack of spiral cords on the whorls and by its straight, lightly concave whorls.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Order	Neogastropoda
Family	Conidae