WoRMS taxon details
Conus imperialis Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 215501
AphiaID: 215501
| 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 |
Rhombiconus Tucker & Tenorio, 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Conus Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Conus dautzenbergi Fenaux, 1942 (synonym of Conus imperialis) Conus douvillei Fenaux, 1942 (synonym of Conus imperialis) Conus fuscatus Born, 1778 (synonym of Conus imperialis) Conus fuscatus dautzenbergi Fenaux, 1942 Conus imperialis compactus Wils, 1970 (synonym of Conus imperialis) Conus imperialis flavescens Barros e Cunha, 1933 (synonym of Conus imperialis) Conus imperialis nigrescens Barros e Cunha, 1933 (synonym of Conus imperialis) Conus queketti E. A. Smith, 1906 (synonym of Conus imperialis) Conus viridulus Lamarck, 1810 (synonym of Conus imperialis) Cucullus coronaducalis Röding, 1798 (synonym of Conus imperialis Linné, 1758) Cucullus regius Röding, 1798 (synonym of Conus imperialis Linné, 1758) Rhombiconus imperialis (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: 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] | ||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Conus imperialis compactus Wils, 1970 accepted as Conus imperialis Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Conus imperialis flavescens Barros e Cunha, 1933 accepted as Conus imperialis Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Conus imperialis nigrescens Barros e Cunha, 1933 accepted as Conus imperialis Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (97 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (71 nucleotides; 93 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: A thick shell, up to 10 cm, with flat but nodular spire and and shoulders. Colour cream with many bands of dark brown dots and dashes, and two wider brown bands also bearing dots and dashes. Base brown and aperture white. Habitat: on shallow sand around reefs. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1997). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215501 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Conus imperialis Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215501 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||||||||
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