Conus praecellens

Conus praecellens
Conus praecellens
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. praecellens
Binomial name
Conus praecellens
A. Adams, 1855 [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Conus bicolor G. B. Sowerby II, 1833
  • Conus sinensis G. B. Sowerby II, 1841
  • Conus sowerbii Reeve, 1849
  • Conus sowerbyi (unjustified emendation for Conus sowerbii, synonym of Conus praecellens)
  • Conus sowerbyi var. subaequalis G. B. Sowerby II, 1870
  • Kurodaconus praecellens (A. Adams, 1855)

Conus praecellens, common name the admirable cone, 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.

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Description

The size of an adult cone varies between 20 mm and 63 mm. The shell is pear-shaped, broad and angulated at the shoulder, contracted towards the base. The body whorl is closely sulcate throughout, the sulci striate The intervening ridges of the rounded spire are carinate, concavely elevated, The acute apex is striate. The color of the shell is whitish, obscurely doubly banded with clouds of light chestnut, and the spire is maculated with the same. [3]

Distribution

This marine species has a wide distribution. It occurs in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, Réunion, Somalia, India, West Thailand and Western Australia; in the Pacific Ocean from Japan to the Philippines and Melanesia (Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu).

References

  1. ^ Adams, A., 1854. Descriptions of New Species of the Genus Conus, from the Collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq.. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1854: 116 -119
  2. ^ a b Conus praecellens A. Adams, 1855.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=428247 on 5 August 2011.
  3. ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 74-75; 1884 (described as Conus cancellatus)
  • 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
  • Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp

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