Conus damottai

Conus damottai
Conus damottai galeao
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. damottai
Binomial name
Conus damottai Trovão, 1979 [1]
Synonyms[2]
Africonus damottai (Trovão, 1979)

Conus damottai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.^[2]

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.

There are two subspecies :

• Conus damottai damottai Trovão, 1979
• Conus damottai galeao Rolán, 1990

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 16 mm and 30 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean along Cape Verde and in the Mediterranean Sea.

References

1. ^ Trovão, H. F. M., 1979. Contribuição para o estudo dos Moluscos Gasterópodos da famaia Conidae da África occidental. Amphitrite, 1 (1 ): 3 -12
2. ^ ^{a b} Conus damottai Trovão, 1979.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224826 on 18 July 2011.

• Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 - 1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp
• Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda
• Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. September 4th 2009 Edition

External links

• The Conus Biodiversity website
• Gastropods.com: Africonus damottai damottai; accessed: 18 July 2011