Conus abrolhosensis | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Conidae |
Genus: | Conus |
Species: | C. abrolhosensis |
Binomial name | |
Conus abrolhosensis Petuch, 1987 | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Conus abrolhosensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. [1]
These snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans.
Original description: "Shell small for genus, biconic in shape, spire elevated; body whorl shiny, polished, sculptured with numerous raised spiral cords; spiral cords become stronger at anterior end; shoulder sharp-angled, carinated; carina coronated on spire, with coronations becoming less developed and obsolete on final half of the body whorl; aperture narrow, shell color variable, ranging from orange (holotype) to white and blue-purple; holotype with scattered white patches around mid-body and anterior tip; spire whorls of holotype dark orange with evenly-spaced, oval-shaped white flammules around edge of periphery; on white and purple specimens, spire dark brown, with same pattern of evenly-spaced white flammules; protoconch large, mamillate; periostracum thin, translucent, smooth, with row of small tufts along shoulder carina and spire carina that correspond to shoulder carinations." [2]
The size of the shell varies between 11 mm and 30 mm.
Locus typicus: "Off Parcel das Paredes, Abrolhos Archipelago,
Bahia State, Brazil." [3]
This marine species of Cone snail occurs in the Caribbean Sea
and off the Abrolhos Archipelago, Eastern Brasil.
"Named for the Abrolhos Archipelago and reef complex,
Bahia State, Brazil - the type locality." [4]
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