Revision of the deep-water cone snail fauna from New Caledonia (Gastropoda, Conoidea) Author Tenorio, Manuel J. 24B3DC9A-3E34-4165-A450-A8E86B0D1231 Departamento CMIM y Química Inorgánica - Instituto de Biomoléculas (INBIO), Facultad de Ciencias, Torre Norte, 1 ª Planta, Universidad de Cadiz, 11510 Puerto Real, Cadiz, Spain. Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 26, F- 75005 Paris, France. manuel.tenorio@uca.es Author Puillandre, Nicolas 00565F2A-C170-48A1-AAD9-16559C536E4F puillandre@mnhn.fr text European Journal of Taxonomy 2023 2023-10-03 896 1 134 https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2291/9907 journal article 273174 10.5852/ejt.2023.896.2291 3638570d-9fdb-4d92-a492-b351f217475a 2118-9773 8405510 F53C16AD-46F5-413B-9ACE-29713C9ED8D9 Subgenus Taranteconus Azuma, 1972 According to Phuong et al. (2019) , Conus ( Taranteconus ) chiangi ( Azuma, 1972 ) , which is the type species of the (sub)genus Taranteconus , is sister to a clade containing the Indo-Pacific species assigned to the (sub)genus Rhombiconus Tucker & Tenorio, 2009 . These two groups are sister to another clade composed of western Atlantic and eastern Pacific species of cones, including Conus ( Stephanoconus ) regius Gmelin, 1791 , the type species of the (sub)genus Stephanoconus M̂rch, 1852. All these species from very distant geographic areas had so far been lumped in the supraspecific taxon Stephanoconus . In addition to the geographic separation, the species in Taranteconus exhibit very distinct shell and radular morphologies which allow a clear separation from species in Stephanoconus and also from Rhombiconus (Tucker & Tenorio 2013) . Hence, the phylogenetic relationship between the (sub) genera Taranteconus , Rhombiconus and Stephanoconus is formally analogous to that existing between Kurodaconus , Mitraconus and Turriconus (see above). For this reason, we hereby consider Taranteconus a valid supraspecific taxon, rather than a synonym of Stephanoconus .