Conus dianthus

Conus dianthus
Two views of a shell of Conus dianthus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Conidae
Genus:	Conus
Species:	C. dianthus
Binomial name
Conus dianthus G. B. Sowerby III, 1882
Synonyms [1]
Conus (Dauciconus) dianthusG. B. Sowerby III, 1882 · accepted, alternate representation Purpuriconus dianthus(G. B. Sowerby III, 1882)

Conus dianthus 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.

Description

The size of the shell varies between 22 mm and 28 mm. The shell is rather abbreviately conical, pale pink, with irregular patches of orange. It shows rather distant revolving ridges and faint longitudinal striae, undulating across the ribs and forming thereon minute scales. The body whorl is obscurely coronated. The aperture is pink within. ^[2]

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus dianthus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=429439 on 2015-09-11
2. G.W. Tryon(1884) Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences

• Sowerby, G.B. Jr. (1882). Descriptions of new Species of Shells in the Collection of Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1882): 117-121
• 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

• To World Register of Marine Species
• Cone Shells - Knights of the Sea