Conus cuna

Conus cuna
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Conidae
Genus:	Conus
Species:	C. cuna
Binomial name
	Conus cuna; Petuch, 1998
Synonyms [1]
	Atlanticonus cuna(Petuch, 1998); Conus (Atlanticonus) cuna(Petuch, 1998) · accepted, alternate representation; Gladioconus cuna(Petuch, 1998);

Last updated March 21, 2019

Conus cuna is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.^[1]

Sea snail is a common name for snails that normally live in salt water, in other words marine gastropods. The taxonomic class Gastropoda also includes snails that live in other habitats, such as land snails and freshwater snails. Many species of sea snails are edible and exploited as food sources by humans.

Family is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy; it is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as being the "walnut family".

Conidae, with the current common name of "cone snails," is a taxonomic family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Conoidea.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Panama.

The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and south west, to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with Cuba, to the east by the Lesser Antilles, and to the south by the north coast of South America.

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 23 mm.^[2]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 3 m.^[2] Maximum recorded depth is 3 m.^[2]

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References

1 2 Conus cuna Petuch, 1998 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 March 2010.
1 2 3 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.

Petuch, E. J. 1998a. Molluscan discoveries from the tropical western Atlantic region. Part 5. New species of Conus from the Bahamas, Honduran Banks, San Blas Archipelago, and northeastern South America. La Conchiglia 30(287):25-37, 21 figs.
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
"Conus cuna". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 22 January 2012.

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[WoRMS-1] 1 2 Conus cuna Petuch, 1998 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 March 2010.

[Welch_2010-2] 1 2 3 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.