Pygmaeconus wallacei
| Pygmaeconus wallacei | |
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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: | Pygmaeconus |
| Species: | P. wallacei
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| Binomial name | |
| Pygmaeconus wallacei (Lorenz & Morrison, 2004)
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Pygmaeconus wallacei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1]
Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans.
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 6 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off Sulawesi, Indonesia.
References
[edit]- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Pygmaeconus wallacei (Lorenz & Morrison, 2004). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=986849 on 2018-02-11
- 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): 1–23. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyu055. PMC 4541476. PMID 26300576.
- Lorenz, F. and Morrison, H. 2004b. The genus Lilliconus G. Raybaudi Massilia (Gastropoda: Conidae) in the Western Pacific, with the description of Lilliconus wallacei sp. nov. Schriften zur Malakozoologie 21:29–34.
- Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758–1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp.
External links
[edit]- The Conus Biodiversity website
- "Pseudolilliconus wallacei". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Puillandre, N.; Tenorio, M.J. (2017). "A question of rank: DNA sequences and radula characters reveal a new genus of cone snails (Gastropoda: Conidae)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 83 (2): 200–210. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyx011.
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
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