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Published in final edited form as: Brain Behav Evol. 2015 Sep 24;86(1):58–74. doi: 10.1159/000438449

Table I.

Conus Subgenera with Fish-hunting Species

Subgenus	Type species (see Figure 1)	# species
Subgenus	Type species (see Figure 1)	Total assigned	Supported by molecular data⁺	Envenomation observed
Afonsoconus^* Tucker & Tenorio, 2013	Conus kinoshitai Kuroda, 1956	2	2	0
Asprella^* Schaufuss, 1869	Conus sulcatus Bruguière, 1792	8	5	0
Chelyconus^† Mörch, 1852	Conus ermineus Born, 1778	2	2	2
Embrikena^* Iredale, 1937	Conus pergrandis (Iredale, 1937)	5	1	0
Gastridium Modeer, 1793	Conus geographus Linnaeus, 1758	6	4	3
Phasmoconus Mörch, 1852	Conus radiatus Gmelin, 1791	75	19	1
Pionoconus Mörch, 1852	Conus magus Linnaeus, 1758	26	15	8
Textilia Swainson, 1840	Conus bullatus Linnaeus, 1758	10	4	1

^*

Prey capture has not been directly observed in these lineages.

^†

Panama and Tropical Atalntic in biogeographic distribution (not Indo-Pacific).

⁺

From Puillandre et al., 2014. Many of the assignments are really only “best guesses” based solely on shell morphology.