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Conus glans

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Conus glans
Four shells of the Acorn cone, Conus glans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conus
Species:
C. glans
Binomial name
Conus glans
Hwass in Bruguière, 1792
Synonyms[2]
  • Conus (Leporiconus) glans Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Conus fusiformis Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
  • Conus glans var. granulata Dautzenberg, 1937
  • Conus violaceus Link, 1807 (invalid: junior homonym of Conus violaceus Gmelin, 1791)
  • Leporiconus glans (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792)

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

These snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.

Varieties
  • Conus glans var. granulata Dautzenberg, 1937: synonym of Conus glans Hwass in Bruguière, 1792
  • Conus glans var. tenuigranulata Dautzenberg, 1937: synonym of Conus tenuistriatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1858

Description

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The size of the shell varies between 17 mm and 65 mm. The shell is encircled throughout with coarse or fine striae, which are sometimes granular; violaceous or brown, with a few lighter spots on the spire, and usually a light irregular band below the middle of the body whorl. The aperture is violaceous.[3]

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and off Chagos and the Mascarene Basin; in the tropical West Pacific; off India; off Australia (the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia).

References

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  1. ^ Kohn, A. (2013). "Conus glans". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T192722A2149399. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T192722A2149399.en. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b Conus glans Hwass in Bruguière, 1792. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 March 2010.
  3. ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
  • Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp.
  • Link, H.F. 1807. Beschreibung der Naturalien Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Rostock : Alders Erben.
  • Fischer, G. 1807. Museum Demidoff ou Catalogue systematique et raisonne des Curiosites de la Nature et de l Art, donnes a l Universite Imperiale de Moscou par Son Excellence Monsieur Paul de Demidoff. Moscou : Demidoff Vol. 3 pp. ix + 330, pls I-VI.
  • Reeve, L.A. 1843. Monograph of the genus Conus. pls 1–39 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 1.
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III (fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321–636, plates IV-VII pp.
  • Satyamurti, S.T. 1952. Mollusca of Krusadai Is. I. Amphineura and Gastropoda. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History ns 1(no. 2, pt 6): 267 pp., 34 pls
  • Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian Shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp.
  • Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the Central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp.
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
  • Röckel, D., Korn, W. & Kohn, A.J. 1995. Manual of the Living Conidae. Volume 1: Indo-Pacific Region. Wiesbaden : 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
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