Conus aureopunctatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[2] These snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Species: | C. aureopunctatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Conus aureopunctatus Petuch, 1987
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Description
editOriginal description: "Shell small for genus, turnip-shaped, with wide body whorl and prominent constriction around anterior one-third, producing distinct anterior canal; shell shiny, polished; shoulder sharply carinated, with bladelike carina; spire elevated, scalariform; anterior third of shell ornamented with 10 thick, raised, spiral cords, each separated from others by deeply-incised sulci; base color of shell white; smooth portion of body whorl with 4 rows of pale yellow-orange dots; spiral cords on anterior end marked with yellow-orange dots; spire whorls smooth, with numerous crescent-shaped orange flammules; interior of aperture white; periostracum brown, thick, and smooth."[3] The size of the shell attains 20 mm.
Distribution
editLocus typicus: Erroneously stated as "Gulf of Venezuela, off Punto Fijo, Falcon state, Venezuela"- but now corrected to Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Honduran-Nicaraguan border
This marine species of cone snail occurs in the Caribbean Sea
off Nicaragua and Venezuela
References
edit- ^ Petuch, E. (2013). "Conus aureopunctatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T192784A2160983. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T192784A2160983.en. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus aureopunctatus Petuch, 1987. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=429313 on 2015-07-18
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 110. Publ: CERF
- Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2013) Illustrated catalog of the living cone shells. 517 pp. Wellington, Florida: MdM Publishing.
- 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
edit- To World Register of Marine Species
- "Conasprella aureopunctatus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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