Conus pertusus

Conus pertusus
Apertural view of Conus pertusus
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. pertusus
Binomial name
Conus pertusus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 [1]
Synonyms[2]
Conus amabilis Lamarck, 1810 Conus festivus Dillwyn, 1817 Rhizoconus festivus Dillwyn, L.W., 1817 Rhizoconus pertusus (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792)

Conus pertusus 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.

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 20 mm and 69 mm. The spire is convex, rather obtuse. The body whorl is encircled by distant punctate striae. The color of the shell is rosy tinged with yellow and interruptedly banded with white blotches below the shoulder and in the middle of the body-whorl.^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along Chagos, the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius; in the entire Indo-Pacific

References

1. ^ Bruguière, J. G., and Hwass, C. H., 1792. Cone. Encyclopédie Méthodique: Histoire Naturelle des Vers, 1: 586 -757
2. ^ ^{a b} Conus pertusus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215454 on 5 August 2011.
3. ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI, p. 54; 1884

• Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 - 1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp.
• Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. September 4th 2009 Edition

External links

• The Conus Biodiversity website
• Gastropods.com: Rhizoconus pertusus; accessed: 5 August 2011