Conus mcgintyi

Conus mcgintyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Conidae
Genus:	Conus
Species:	C. mcgintyi
Binomial name
Conus mcgintyi Pilsbry, 1955[1]

Conus mcgintyi is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

Distribution

This is a western Atlantic species, which occurs from Florida to Brazil.

Description

Conus mcgintyi has elongate, many-whorled shell with a high conical spire. The external coloration is white with orange markings.

The maximum recorded shell length is 52.2 mm.^[2]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 55 m.^[2] Maximum recorded depth is 219 m.^[2]

References

1. ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1955). "Another Floridan Conus". The Nautilus 69(2): 47-48, plate 3, figure 10-11.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.

External links

• Conus mcgintyi - Information. Note that the species name of this cone is incorrectly spelled on that site.
• Malacolog Version 4.1.0 : A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca
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