Original type figure / illustration from 1857.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Conoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Caenogastropoda
Ordo: Neogastropoda
Superfamilia: Conoidea

Familia: Conidae
Subfamilia: Coninae
Genus: Conus
Subgenus: Leptoconus
Species: Conus villepinii

Name

Conus villepinii Fischer & Bernardi, 1857 (Journal de Conch. 5, 292, pl. 9 fig. 12)

Type locality: Deep water off Marie Galante de Guadeloupe, French West Indies.

Holotype: Orginally in the Beau & Schramm collection, but since lost.
A neotype has recently been proposed.

Synonyms

  • Conasprelloides villepinii (P. Fischer & Bernardi, 1857)
  • Conasprelloides villepinii fosteri (Clench, 1942)
  • Conasprelloides villepinii villepinii (P. Fischer & Bernardi, 1857)
  • Conus (Dauciconus) villepinii P. Fischer & Bernardi, 1857 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Conus fosteri Clench, 1942
  • Conus perprotractus Petuch, 1987
  • Conus sorenseni Sander, 1982
  • Conus villepinii fosteri Clench, 1942
  • Conus villepinii guadalupensis Bozzetti, 2017
  • Conus villepinii villepinii P. Fischer & Bernardi, 1857
  • Sandericonus hunti (Wils & Moolenbeek, 1979)
  • Sandericonus perprotractus (Petuch, 1987)
  • Sandericonus sorenseni (Sander, 1982)

References

Primary references

Additional references

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

Vernacular names

English: Villepin's Cone
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