Conus miles

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Conus miles
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conus
Species:
C. miles
Binomial name
Conus miles
Synonyms [2]
  • Conus (Rhizoconus) milesLinnaeus, 1758 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Rhizoconus milesLinnaeus, 1758

Conus miles, common name the soldier cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. [2]

Contents

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 an adult shell varies between 50 mm and 136 mm. The spire is obsoletely tuberculate or smooth and rather depressed. The thick shell has nodular shoulders of whorls. The body whorl is bordered by a broad shoulder and is spirally ridged at the base. The color of the thick shell is yellowish white or pale orange, with close narrow, wavy, thread-like longitudinal chestnut striations, interrupted by a chocolate, fairly narrow, revolving band above the middle. The base is stained chocolate, bordered upwards by progressively lighter bands. The aperture is banded, chocolate and white. [3]

Distribution

This cone snail is found in Aldabra, Chagos, Madagascar, Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Red Sea and Tanzania. [2] and in the entire Indo-Pacific; off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).

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References

  1. Duda, T. (2013). "Conus miles". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2013: e.T192634A2131533. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T192634A2131533.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Conus miles Linnaeus, 1758 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 30 July 2011.
  3. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI, p. 40; 1879