WoRMS taxon details
Conus catus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792
AphiaID: 215441
AphiaID: 215441
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Conoidea (Superfamily) > Conidae (Family) > Conus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Conus Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Conus catus var. fuscoolivaceus Dautzenberg, 1937 (synonym of Conus catus) Conus catus var. granulata Wils, 1971 (specimen of Conus catus Hwass, 1792) Conus catus var. rubrapapillosa Dautzenberg, 1937 (synonym of Conus catus) Conus collisus var. granulosus Barros e Cunha, 1933 Conus discrepans G. B. Sowerby II, 1833 Conus nigropunctatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1858 (synonym of Conus catus) Conus nigropunctatus var. peledi Wils, 1971 (specimen of Conus nigropunctatus Sowerby, 1858) Conus purus Pease, 1863 (synonym of Conus catus) Conus reflectus G. B. Sowerby III, 1877 (synonym of Conus catus) Conus reflexus G. B. Sowerby III, 1887 (synonym of Conus catus) Cucullus nubilis Röding, 1798 Cucullus nubilus Röding, 1798 (synonym of Conus catus Hwass, 1792) Pionoconus catus (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. September 4th 2009 Edition. [details] basis of record: 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. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 - 1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp. [details] from synonym: Filmer R.M. (2012) Taxonomic review of the Conus spectrum, Conus stramineus and Conus collisus complexes (Gastropoda - Conidae). Part III: The Conus collisus complex. Visaya 3(6): 4-47. [October 2012] [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Severns M. (2011) Shells of the Hawaiian Islands - The Sea Shells. Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 564 pp. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Conus catus var. fuscoolivaceus Dautzenberg, 1937 accepted as Conus catus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 Variety Conus catus var. granulata Wils, 1971 accepted as Conus catus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 Variety Conus catus var. granulosa Dautzenberg, 1937 accepted as Conus arenatus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 Variety Conus catus var. rubrapapillosa Dautzenberg, 1937 accepted as Conus catus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (42 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (51 nucleotides; 43 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: A small, thick, broad cone, up to 4 cm, with pointed but rounded spire, and weak shoulder nodules. Colouration highly variable; usually pale to yellow cream, often with darker blotchy markings. Aperture white. Habitat: lower eulittoral, often under boulders. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997). [details] Spelling: C. cattus in McClanahan 1990 [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215441 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Conus catus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215441 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||||||||
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