Conus caracteristicus

Conus caracteristicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Conidae
Genus:	Conus
Species:	C. caracteristicus
Binomial name
	Conus caracteristicus; Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
Synonyms
	Conus (Puncticulis) caracteristicus Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 · accepted, alternate representation; Conus brevis E. A. Smith, 1877; Conus characteristicus Dillwyn, 1817; Conus masoni H. Nevill & N. Nevill, 1874; Conus muscosus Lamarck, 1810; Lithoconus caracteristicus (Fischer von Waldheim, 1807); Tesselliconus caracteristicus (Fischer von Waldheim, 1807);

Conus caracteristicus, common name the characteristic cone, 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.

Description[]

The size of the shell varies between 19 mm and 88 mm. The color of the shell is white, irregularly longitudinally flamed, forming two (or sometimes three) interrupted broad bands. The body whorl is somewhat inflated, rounded at the upper part, striate below. The spire is striate.^[2]

Distribution[]

This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and East Africa; from the Bay of Bengal to Indonesia and Japan

Conus caracteristicus Fischer von Waldheim, G., 1807
Conus caracteristicus Fischer von Waldheim, G., 1807
Conus caracteristicus Fischer von Waldheim, G., 1807

References[]

^ ^a ^b Conus caracteristicus Fischer von Waldheim, 1807. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 March 2010.
^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (described as Conus characteristicus)

Lamarck, J. B. P. A., 1810. Description des espèces du genre Cône. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 15: 263–292
Smith, E. A. 1877. Descriptions of new species of Conidae and Terebridae. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 19: 222–231.
Kohn, A.J., 1981. Type specimens and identity of the described species of Conus VI. The species described 1801–1810. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 71(3): 279–341
Kohn, A.J., 1992. A chronological taxonomy of Conus, 1758–1840. Smithsonian Institution Press: 315 pp
Röckel, D., Korn, W. & Kohn, A.J., 1995. Manual of the living Conidae. Volume 1: Indo-Pacific region. Hemmen: 517 pp
Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1–23

External links[]

The Conus Biodiversity website
Cone Shells – Knights of the Sea
"Lithoconus caracteristicus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
Holotype in MNHN, Paris

[WoRMS-1] Conus caracteristicus Fischer von Waldheim, 1807. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 March 2010.

[2] G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (described as Conus characteristicus)

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