Conus pertusus

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Conus pertusus
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Apertural view of Conus pertusus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conus
Species:
C. pertusus
Binomial name
Conus pertusus
Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Conus (Rhizoconus) pertususHwass in Bruguière, 1792 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Conus amabilisLamarck, 1810
  • Conus festivusDillwyn, 1817
  • Dendroconus pertusus(Hwass in Bruguière, 1792)
  • Rhizoconus pertusus(Hwass in Bruguière, 1792)

Conus pertusus, common name the pertusus cone or the lovely 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.

Subspecies

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 20 mm and 69 mm. The spire is convex, rather obtuse. The body whorl is encircled by distant punctate striae. The color of the shell is rosy tinged with yellow and interruptedly banded with white blotches below the shoulder and in the middle of the body-whorl. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Chagos, the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius; in the entire Indo-Pacific; off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia).

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References

  1. ↑ Bruguière, J. G., and Hwass, C. H., 1792. Cone. Encyclopédie Méthodique: Histoire Naturelle des Vers, 1: 586 -757
  2. 1 2 Conus pertusus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 August 2011.
  3. ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI, p. 54; 1884
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