Conus tessulatus

Conus tessulatus
Conus tessulatus
A shell of Conus tessulatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Subfamily: Coninae
Genus: Conus
Species: C. tessulatus
Binomial name
Conus tessulatus
Born, 1778
Synonyms[1]

Conus edaphus Dall, 1910
Cucullus pavimentum Röding, 1798

Conus tessulatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1]

Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.

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Description

Distribution

Conus tessulatus specimen from La Pas, Baja California Sur, Mexico.

Conus tessulatus has perhaps the largest range of any known species of Cone snail. Its habitat ranges from the east coast of Africa across the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean to the west coast of Central America from Western Mexico to Costa Rica.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Conus tessulatus Born, 1778.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215519 on 27 March 2010.
  2. ^ http://biology.burke.washington.edu/conus/recordview/record.php?ID=2905l5l101317l41lll&tabs=11111111&frms=1&pglimit=10&offset=0&res=catreg&srt=`Species`&sql2=Where++web_tblcatalog.Species+Like+'tessulatus'

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