Conus caracteristicus, common name the characteristic cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[2]
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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. caracteristicus
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| Conus caracteristicus Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
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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
editThe size of the shell varies between 19 mm and 88 mm. The color of the shell is white, irregularly longitudinally flamed, forming two (or sometimes three) interrupted broad bands. The body whorl is somewhat inflated, rounded at the upper part, striate below. The spire is striate.[3]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and East Africa; from the Bay of Bengal to Indonesia and Japan
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Conus caracteristicus Fischer von Waldheim, G., 1807 -
Conus caracteristicus Fischer von Waldheim, G., 1807 -
Conus caracteristicus Fischer von Waldheim, G., 1807
References
edit- ^ Kohn, A. (2013). "Conus caracteristicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T192820A2168195. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T192820A2168195.en. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
- ^ a b Conus caracteristicus Fischer von Waldheim, 1807. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 March 2010.
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (described as Conus characteristicus)
- Lamarck, J. B. P. A., 1810. Description des espèces du genre Cône. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 15: 263–292
- Smith, E. A. 1877. Descriptions of new species of Conidae and Terebridae. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 19: 222–231.
- Kohn, A.J., 1981. Type specimens and identity of the described species of Conus VI. The species described 1801–1810. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 71(3): 279–341
- Kohn, A.J., 1992. A chronological taxonomy of Conus, 1758–1840. Smithsonian Institution Press: 315 pp
- Röckel, D., Korn, W. & Kohn, A.J., 1995. Manual of the living Conidae. Volume 1: Indo-Pacific region. Hemmen: 517 pp
- 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
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- The Conus Biodiversity website
- Cone Shells – Knights of the Sea
- "Lithoconus caracteristicus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
- Holotype in MNHN, Paris