Conus eburneus

Conus eburneus
A shell of Conus eburneus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conus
Species: C. eburneus
Binomial name
Conus eburneus
Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Conus (Tesselliconus) eburneus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 accepted, alternate representation
  • Conus alternatus Link, H.F., 1807
  • Conus crassus Sowerby ii, 1857
  • Conus polyglotta Weinkauff, 1874
  • Conus quadratulus Röding, 1798
  • Lithoconus eburneus (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792)</s
  • Lithoconus eburneus quadratulus (f) Röding, P.F., 1798
  • Tesselliconus eburneus (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792)

Conus eburneus, common name the ivory 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.

There is one subspecies: Conus eburneus crassus G. B. Sowerby II, 1858 represented as Conus eburneus.

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 79 mm. The shell is white, usually with two or three light yellowish bands, marked with very dark brown revolving spots.[3]

Distribution

This marine species is found in the tropical Indo-West Pacific from the coast of East Africa (off Madagascar and Chagos) to Australia (the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia), Polynesia and the Ryukyu Islands (but not along Hawaii)

References

  1. Bruguière, J. G., and Hwass, C. H., 1792. Cone. Encyclopédie Méthodique: Histoire Naturelle des Vers, 1: 586 -757
  2. 1 2 Conus eburneus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 August 2011.
  3. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences

Below are several color forms and one subspecies:

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