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Conus geographus Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 215499

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  Gastridium Modeer, 1793
Rollus Montfort, 1810
Utriculus Schumacher, 1817
Parent Conus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Gastridium geographus (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: Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 - 1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp. [details]

from synonym: Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English geographer cone  [details]
English geography cone  [details]
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Variety Conus geographus var. rosea Sowerby II, 1833 accepted as Conus eldredi Morrison, 1955
Distribution Chagos [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Tanzania [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (95 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (45 nucleotides; 40 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Note  Description: Highly dangerous - live specimens should be handled with extreme caution. Broad, thin shell, up to 15 cm, with wide aperture and numerous shoulder ridges or spines. Colour creamy white, with orange or reddish-brown bands or blotches. Aperture bluish-white or pink. Habitat: around shallow reefs. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997) [details]
Image 
Conus geographus
Conus geographus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215499
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2001-12-15 16:49:27Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-10-27 10:23:08Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2011-10-02 09:38:56Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Conus geographus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215499 on 2013-05-18
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