Puncticulis

{{Short description|Subgenus of gastropods}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Puncticulis

| image = Conus arenatus 1.jpg

| image_caption = Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Conus arenatus (Hwass in Bruguière, J.G., 1792)

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Gastropoda

| unranked_superfamilia = clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

| superfamilia = Conoidea

| familia = Conidae

| genus = Conus

| subgenus = Puncticulis

| subgenus_authority = Swainson, 1840{{No-gastropod-genus-ref}}

| synonyms_ref =

| synonyms = Conus (Puncticulis) Swainson, 1840

| type_species= Conus arenatus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792

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Puncticulis is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2011). Puncticulis Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=574742 on 2012-01-21Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp.

In the latest classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Puncticulis has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Puncticulis) Swainson, 1840 (type species: Conus arenatus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792) represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758[https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyu055 Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1-23]