WoRMS taxon details
Conus miles Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 215479
AphiaID: 215479
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Rhizoconus Mörch, 1852 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Conus Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Rhizoconus miles (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. September 4th 2009 Edition. [details] additional source: Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 120 [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: 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] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (79 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (61 nucleotides; 53 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: A thick shell, up to 9 cm, with slightly raised spire and nodular shoulders of whorls. Overall colour pattern pale orange and white, with darker brown band around the centre and around the base of the shell, numerous fine, vertical, wavy lines. Aperture pale with darker bands. Habitat: around shallow reefs. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215479 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2013). Conus miles Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215479 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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